Well start calling because yours are disappearing as fast as those in the UK
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"Canada Bans Assault Weapons; People 'Deserve More Than Thoughts and Prayers' ”
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Well start calling because yours are disappearing as fast as those in the UK
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I've been calling that since the political threads had become so popular.
Hellbound Serpiente
Active Member
Good riddance. Why the hell would an ordinary citizen need a ****ing Assault Weapon? Are you preparing for Zombie Apocalypse or are you Usama's relative?
epronovost
Well-Known Member
I doubt this will shift Canada up or down the democary index. The move has a wide support in Canada something in the 60% of approbation if memory serves me right. Canada's democracy score had improve a little bit last year, but we lost a rank and sit with Danemark at 7th.
PS: The UK is at 14th and the US is at 25, both were stable from last year, but are in a slump since the early 2000's.
Actually after checking on it. 80% of Canadians support the ban on assault-style rifles and about 65% support a ban on handguns too.
Four-in-five Canadians support complete ban on civilian possession of assault style weapons - Angus Reid Institute
With such popularity, there is very little chance there will be an effective opposition to it.
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Your signature line would suggest to me that they are the people that will do something for their country, the ones that get rid of weapons.
Then the next step is "It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens'.
Those citizens that love the world will also get rid of arms.
Regards Tony
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well like I said many times in threads I'm basically a bottom-line person.
I would like to see actual results and to see how things work out over the course of time.
I can't argue over something if people are happy and satisfied with a government that they have.
Personally I don't have much of a use for guns myself. The only thing I like using guns for is skeet shooting and target shooting, with the obvious side benefit of security if I'm ever faced with lethal force.
I remember when Canada pretty much restricted long rifles and such, and still remember the protesting over it. My friend used to go from the States to Canada to hunt game and would bring his guns over the border back in the good old days, and now the red tape is so immense he just doesn't do it anymore.
There's been some huge shifts in free world countries now where freedom is really becoming a focus and a concern.
Especially in light of terrorism and now the virus.
But one thing I know for certain, if people are happy who am I to say it's not working for them?
I do wish Canada the best though because it is a beautiful and great country which I think is a mirror image of the United States in terms of freedom and autonomy. I would hate to see that destroyed.
1996 in Australia, but we need to go much further as well. Gun law of Australia - Wikipedia
Regards Tony
epronovost
Well-Known Member
Actually by that metric alone, civic liberties, Canada is far more liberal than the US whose liberalism is surprisingly low.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
For all the time I spent in Canada, I find the nation to be a bit restrictive for my taste but in terms of liberalism, at least the Canadian way is still platable and definitely better than the US implementation of liberalism.
I agree with you there.
See, I knew it. Sanity does exist on the North American Continent.
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It's just a matter of getting north of Michigan.
And your reaction is not a knee-jerk reaction?
No, it was in the works already.
The COVID-19 crisis just moved it to the back burner (until the shooting moved it to the front burner again). It was still supposed to happen this year before the shooting happened.
In general, I consider Americans much less free than Canadians... even with the new firearm regulations.
Perhaps, but as a proud and lifelong Canadian myself, first I am delighted with the new restrictions, and second, I don't actually know anybody who disagrees -- even though you say (without naming any) that there are "many."
What's truly interesting, though, is that the most conservative newspaper that I read every day doesn't even bother to mention it! Not a word. It's like, "yeah, who cares?"
Canada is a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster model. As such, the party with the second most seats in the house is referred to as "her Majesty's loyal opposition." They are loyal, in other words, to the nation, as embodied by the monarch. It is, after all, possible to be loyal while holding a different political vision.
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Anything? So when your individual freedom to burn down somebody else's house, or rape their daughter (or son!) is taken away, that should be called out?
And as near as I can tell, most conservative Americans don't believe that anyway. For example, they object strenuously to the right of some people to marry, or women to have control over their own bodies. So what you really mean to say, although you didn't, is that "Anything that restricts or takes a way a person's individual freedom that I approve of should be called out."
The legislation contains a list. You can look it up in Hansard, which is published by the Government of Canada online for all to read.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
They tend to have it better in those regards. Some much better that not only are they ahead in civil rights, their regulated market has produced a more free market than America (according to CATO). They don't deny evolution like America, they have healthcare, there's no real "mirror image" between us.
I can certainly tell you that nothing in the world would make me wish to give up Canada and become an American. (By the same token, my best friend was born in Schenectady NY, and lived the majority of his life and work in the US -- but is now a happy, proud Canadian, having recently taken the oath of citizenship. And he says he would never go back.)
Curious George
Veteran Member
Why would a police force need them? Why would military need them?