Posted on 05/31/2022 4:46:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Canada’s government, headed by its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has introduced drastic anti-gun legislation that, if passed, will mean (in Trudeau’s words) that “it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada.” This is one more step in Canada’s mostly relentless push (only slightly alleviated during the Stephen Harper administration) to bring all weapons under government control. This never ends well for a nation’s people.
Even though Canada and America come from the same British tradition that, under the Magna Carta and the 1689 Bill of Rights, recognized certain English rights, they took different paths beginning in the 1760s. In America, colonists were outraged when Parliament’s law aggressively restricted some of those rights. When the colonists challenged the laws by referring to the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, Parliament announced that those documents controlled only the king, not Parliament.
In the face of that sophistry, the American people rebelled. After they won the Revolution, they ratified the Bill of Rights, saying that specific rights are inherent in the people and no form of government can restrict them. The Canadians, however, did not rebel and meekly allowed the British Parliament and then their own Canadian Parliament to do with them as they wanted.
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Interesting story that went absolutely nowhere. I’d love to see it investigated.
This is why we call it Canaduh.
Slow Joe has to come after our ARs now. Lest he be upstaged.
The experts all agree ...
Justin Castro following in the footsteps of his real father.
And the Canadian people will gleefully abide.
Well, that is a safe bet. And, least amount of work. We had an AR-15 ban already. Lasted 10 years and then was allowed to expire — after it was shown to have accomplished nothing.
Shootings were on a steep decline before the ban took effect. They continued to decline with no measurable effect during the ban— i.e., you’d expect/hope for a drop. Nope. Nuttin.
In addition, the SCOTUS has already held that banning a common gun is unconstitutional. Yeah, you might get away with banning a weird one, but not one in common use.
Such would eventually limit imposing a ban of the AR-15.
So, this is an easy sell for BeijingBiden: propose something that won’t work and is probably illegal (he is no stranger to that ploy). Then, when it doesn’t fly, he can say he tried but the terrorists in the GOP and NRA stopped him.
And, the pinheads who “voted” for him will believe it.
Agreed
It will pass he has the Communist NDP in his pocket
And the Canadian people will gleefully abide.
Did you miss the trucker’s protest and a few others
“Interesting story that went absolutely nowhere. I’d love to see it investigated.”
American Thinker is well known for its inability to think.
They voted for it, embrace the suck.
While I agree ... have a proto-Communist country at our Northern Border will suck, too.
I did not miss it. SO how did that work out? They gave in.
Tt will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada.
Moose and elks hold meeting it’s our turn.
Ping
They already did that earlier this year.
Justice Minister says you don’t have absolute right to private property in Canada
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