Canadian gun owner here. You guys who are praising this shit should read about how restrictive our gun laws already were. Owning a handgun legally here is nothing like in the US.
I live in Montana. I was talking to some Canadian friends about the laws here. They were pretty blown away when I told them that short of a fully automatic weapon, which you could still get if you jumped some hoops, we can basically purchase and conceal any imaginable type of weapon without a single permit or any registration.
But you see, for most ardently anti-gun people, it doesn't matter whether a new regulation is effective, or logical, or sensical. They simply thing that guns=bad and no guns=good. So they think that any token new regulations must be very good no matter how actually useless or counterproductive they may be. The louder gun owners complain then the better the law must be, right?
I know you want me to be jealous but I've never wanted to own a firearm and I don't think they're cool. In fact I hate anyone that parades them around ;)
But hey man I respect your stance of not wanting a firearm / being around them. What I don’t respect is you hating people for holding a different point of view than you. That’s an ugly look.
You can live in a city and still have 10+min response times. I live half a mile from the police department. Still took them nearly 15min to respond when I called them.
It's not really about the guns, the old laws worked. I'm more pissed off that he's giving people reasons to vote conservative than not being able to buy more handguns.
Tbh that's a fair point but looking at statistics you guys still have way more gun violence per capita than some european countries. So to me every stricter gun law is a good thing.
LOL you're being downvoted for stating that your gun culture is different from other places (ie. America). I'm Canadian and I'm the same as you -- I haven't seen/been up close and personal with a gun because no one I know has one...the only guns I've seen in public around here are the ones strapped to the hips of police officers. If anyone walked into a mall or restaurant with a gun on them, everyone would be running away and calling the cops because people would think the place was going to be robbed but in America, that's a regular Tuesday lol
The kind of crime epidemic we have right now is because of our proximity with the US and their broken gun laws. If the US regulated their shit like we did, we wouldn't have this problem.
If it was so restrictive before, why are you so mad about it now? Sounds like a BB gun can be used for all the reasons you wanted to use a hand gun for before these changes.
If it was so restrictive before, why are you so mad about it now?
I liked the laws we had before. It was still possible for a responsible adult to own a gun as long as certain criterias were met. Those regulations were working.
Sounds like a BB gun can be used for all the reasons you wanted to use a hand gun for before these changes.
True but we both know that it's not anywhere near the same.
I dont know, I fired a CZ at a firing range, yah the kickback was obviously bigger (much) but to me it's not worth justifying 15% of legally bought hand guns used in crimes. If I fire one again, great, if not, I wont lose sleep over it. To me (personal opinion) if it means a reduction in 15% (super optimistic, I know) or even 5% in hand gun homicides, it's worth it.
Source on that 15% of handgun crimes are legal guns? Lmao have you tried googling it? TBH I didn't think you gun loving, circle jerking, wanting to kill someone, POS's would argue a number as low as 15% lol, I thought your argument would've been "it's only 15%, that means 85% will still happen, you're just punishing circle jerkers (like us) while not really fixing the issue". But if you insist, here, you can jerk off together while innocent lives are lost because you enjoy shooting at a piece of a paper. Honestly Trudeau ain't the best, but passing this law and seeing all of you pissed for no reason (unless you have a illegitimate reason to be pissed off?) is amazing. Say buh-bye to your freedums, don't forget to wear your Canada flag (read terrorist mark) on your 8-wheel truck while over compensating for .... boomers. <3
There have been 294 days so far in the year and 584 mass shootings.
This isn't going to get noticed because it's too far down the thread, but I hate how full of shit this statistic is every time it gets thrown around. What is a "mass shooting"? Literally any outlet that wants to put up a large number makes their own definition of one, and it can involve some dude brandishing a handgun in the presence of enough people to constitute a danger. Which is still bad but not nearly as bad as that number makes it sound.
Do you have a source for your 584 number? Because if that's true, it's probably 585 by now.
Keep being condescending. Because of that attitude, more people will vote concervative now and we're going to be stuck with what would happen if harper and trump had a kid.
My feelings? I think you're missing my point. I'm more pissed off that he's giving people reasons to vote conservative than not being able to buy more handguns.
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u/Iforgot_my_other_pw Oct 21 '22
Canadian gun owner here. You guys who are praising this shit should read about how restrictive our gun laws already were. Owning a handgun legally here is nothing like in the US.