Posted on 05/05/2020 8:58:39 PM PDT by rktman
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an impassioned speech about gun violence Friday in announcing a ban on 1,500 types of firearms.
While Trudeaus speech carried emotional weight, there is one glaring problem with the bans implementation how can the nations government ensure citizens turn over their now-banned weapons when there is no way to know exactly how many such firearms are in circulation?
Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country, Trudeau declared, even though police believe the weapons used in the Nova Scotia attack were obtained illegally anyway.
Even if there were a registry, whats to stop owners from simply reporting that they misplaced their firearms at the bottom of a lake while out fishing?
But like all gun control measures, this ban puts the onus on responsible, rule-following citizens, knowing they will largely comply. Meanwhile, criminals will continue to break the law anyway and keep whatever guns they choose.
Therein lies the problem with all gun control if law-abiding citizens do what theyre told, they will be defenseless against the criminals who will be armed anyway.
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Bad representative govt isn’t tyranny. It’s the result of entitlement mentality.
The DOI clearly defined what is a rational point of rebellion, and as long as we collectively enable our elected officials, we will continue to get further erosion of the limited govt principle as mandated in the Constitution.
But, you are correct in terms of maintaining the ability to effect change when that time (of usurpation leading to tyranny) comes.
I'm not so sure about that. I think every firearm has to be registered so they pretty much know who has what.
Old quote:
If things are so bad that you have to bury your guns
How bad do things have to get before you dig them up?
There are more lakes in Canada than the rest of the world combined. Canada is the Saudi Arabia of fresh water.
And that was and will always be the purpose of these ‘laws’. They are designed to control the law abiding, not go after the criminal element.
Leftists hate you, folks. They murder babies and they will murder you if you give them a chance.
JoMa
Only certain ones. In the 90s the Canadian government attempted to impose a national registry of all rifles...there was so much noncompliance, misinformation, spamming etc. that they finally had to give it up.
Not to mention lots of war trophies and “lunchbox specials” never got registered, and many small arms disappeared from Canadian Forces bases over the years.
Basically, yes.
Or was it a law passed by Canadian Parliamrnt?
No. So we await the lawsuits to decide.
He specifically exempted The First Nations aka in canuck speak as Indians from this decree.
“...the government nixed its registry and all information contained within it in 2015...”
Right.
Smart. It appears he likes his scalp and phony eyebrows where they are and not stretched on a frame out by the shed.
***military-grade assault weapons***
= = =
Hmmm
Assualt Weapons, does not limit itself to rifles.
So spears, sabres, poison gas, even cavalry horses, etc. , developed and used for military, are ‘military-grade.’
IIRC, a lot of the million or more guns that were registered were not even firearms. Helpful citizens reportedly registered glue guns, grease guns, staple guns, etc, and the expensive government database ended up being largely corrupt and entirely useless...
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