The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

[Fishbone Jones]

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[Haggis]

He’s out in this weeks rumoured Cabinet shuffle, if there’s any justice left at all in this country.

I certainly hope not. His likely successor will double down hard on the firearms file.

 

[North Star]

Lol. Rugger.

 

[Jarnhamar]

I certainly hope not. His likely successor will double down hard on the firearms file.

It's gotta be annoying for Gary how Secretary of State for Nature Natalie is always buzzing around him.

 

[Eaglelord17]

Gary has been adamant that October 30, 2026 is the final deadline. If he doesn't meet and enforce that, he stands to lose his cabinet seat.

Alternatively they are sticking to that date to try and force the issue. If you go, oh we will extend it again you lose your short term leverage.

 

[Halifax Tar]

I think this will be the way forward. Provinces like BC and QC will have their own enforcement programs and everyone else can do whatever they want. Living in Northern Ontario, I can tell you that no police force is coming for people's guns, they don't have the capacity up here to do so and it would just be opening up a can of worms they don't want to go down.

I like the idea of devolving firearms down to a provincial issue. That way places like Que can do what they like and not screw over the rest of the country.

I see this as yet another wedge that could be driven between PDs/LEOs and citizens.

 

[Eaglelord17]

I like the idea of devolving firearms down to a provincial issue. That way places like Que can do what they like and not screw over the rest of the country.

I see this as yet another wedge that could be driven between PDs/LEOs and citizens.

I don’t. That is the one strength Canada’s gun laws have over other countries is the consistency throughout the country.

I don’t want it to be like America where depending on which state, county, or city you live in or are visiting can drastically change what you can or cannot do.

The problem is the Feds playing politics with gun laws for the sake of playing games, not a issue which needs to be individually managed by province.

 

[Haggis]

I like the idea of devolving firearms down to a provincial issue. That way places like Que can do what they like and not screw over the rest of the country.

I see this as yet another wedge that could be driven between PDs/LEOs and citizens.

Bad idea, for the main reasons that Eaglelord17 articulated. We came close to this with the idea of municipal handgun bans a few years ago.

QC already has it's own specific gun laws, notably their long gun registry and Anastasia's Law (Loi 9) for handguns. Nit a fan of the registry, but there are some good things about Loi 9.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I like the idea of devolving firearms down to a provincial issue. That way places like Que can do what they like and not screw over the rest of the country.

Don't concede powers to the provinces. Just refuse to federalize their complaints.

 

[Halifax Tar]

The provinces lining up against the gun grab seems to indicates to me they have less of a biased political conviction on this file and more pragmatic.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Big police raid in Petawawa on Saturday.




Guessing if they're keeping him in custody there's more going on than 1x 30rd or 15rd magazine missing a pin.

 

[RangerRay]

Even in a civil society there needs to be red lines drawn somewhere, it is very important there is. You want to know how that civil society came to exist? It was through a few civil wars to curtail the powers of the king and enforce the rights of the citizenry.

They don’t like reminding the public of that last part though.

Also, thirty years of mass slaughter in Europe taught everyone that they should tolerate their neighbours who want to pray differently rather than kill each other over it. This is the origins of modern liberalism.