Starting to seem like overkill on the gun laws in Canada, although I don't really have a full sense of it.
Oh this is just the start. We will be down to manual operation smoothbore (that is shotguns) by 2030, I'd bet. The like the Cypriots and Japanese.
I was just coming here to post about this and see what Canadians on here think of this. I hear they might give the SKS a pass since so many, especially people of the first nations , have them.
Oh the sks getting banned by name, no exceptions. As is the M1 Garand.
And to be clear, the fact that there are so many sks rifles in the hands of indigenous individuals, is all the more reason to ban them as far as the vast majority of Canadians are concerned. Heck, there are cops in my hometown who still refer to first nations folks as savages. I'm sure they are absolutely ecstatic about this.
I was just coming here to post about this and see what Canadians on here think of this. I hear they might give the SKS a pass since so many, especially people of the first nations , have them.
I know this is a Canadian issue, so I don't want to project my opinion too much here since I don't live there, but here we are again, a liberal government punishing the wrong people for gun violence. And guess what? Whatever criminals you have over there are still going to get access to guns coming over the border. Now all you are doing is making it harder for people, especially in rural areas, to defend themselves.
But hey, you get what you vote for.
Ironically Trudeau is surrounded by armed guards. Typical of liberal elites telling others you have to live one way while they live another.
Canadians absolutely want this. You have to remember that Canada is a wierd fusion of mobocracy (that is majoritarian "democracy") and plutonomy (that is corporate rule). Speaking of indigenous peoples. In the 70's a group of folks stood up against our corporate government's seizure of their land.
These folks called themselves the Mohawk Warriors...
... and they armed themselves with SKS rifles.
Seeing the pattern yet?
Canada is/founded on authoritarian corporate rule, stretching all the way back to the HBC and NWC. We are just one big company town with a national script, call our currency "monopoly money" is far more apt than people realize. They take what they want, when they want. It's been this way for over 200 years and the ain't going to stop now.
And the sad truth is Canadians are fine with it.
To hard core gun control advocates (That is fanatics. I am not talking about people in favor of moderate or light controls here mind you), there is no difference between licensed firearms holders and criminals. At least this is what I keep hearing from Canadian gun control advocates. Which happens to be the vast majority of Canadians.
By their logic, gun enthusiasts are all just as dangerous as criminals or are in actuality all latent criminals waiting to strike. Disregarding out individual personalities, motivation and circumstances, writing us all off as psychologically damaged or dangerous by default. Moral and ethical deviants.
Because the only people who own firearms are crazies apparently.
(That is not to say that that the hard-core pro-guners don't have their own fanatics of course, they do and they are just as bad.)
This just been reinforced by the years of propaganda young people have been bombarded with since birth for the past 40 years or so. We are a "civilized society" they say. We are not "Americans" they say, even though we are basically the same people (don't say this to a Canadian's face though). Just like the Austrians, Germans and Swiss (don't say that to their faces either).
Patriotism and Nationalism at it's finest.