Canada's Trudeau pledges assault rifle ban, pivots campaign amid blackface scandal

Reuters ^ | September 20, 2019 | David Ljunggren

[C19fan]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, embroiled in a blackface picture scandal, on Friday pledged to ban military-style assault rifles in the country’s most ethnically diverse city in a bid to get his campaign back on issue.

Trudeau is campaigning in Toronto with less than five weeks to go before the Oct. 21 national election and two days after bombshell images of him in blackface emerged.

[NorthMountain]

Meanwhile they are almost unobtainable in the US because William Jefferson Clinton made the Russians agree not to export to here.

Hey … if the President wanted to do something good for We the People who actually support him, he might consider rescinding Slick Willie's import bans. It's all executive order and executive action. No need to bother Congress.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yup. He needs this behind him. His supporters of course are offering every excuse under the sun.

[grobdriver]

Not assault rifle.
No scary pistol grip!