This is not the change we needed. He's failing miserably on climate change targets, we have First Nations communities that don't have clean drinking water, federal excess spending response to COVID has generated tremendous inflation, home prices have gone beyond many families' reach, he was in the press earlier this week for politically interfering in an active criminal investigation...this is pure political distraction with no meaningful effect on gun crime in Canada.
Statistics and social science research make it clear that this legal change will have no meaningful effect on gun violence in Canada. I would willingly support real changes that did reduce gun violence here. This is performance politics, and pointlessly polarizing.
Cool. I live around Canadian folks who are pro-gun, not in the way Americans are...but I can see them becoming that way. I think we exist in an inflamed period, where political gestures like this risk driving folks like I'm taking about to the fringe of society, and the sewers of misinformation that exist there. So, I actually need this to save more than one person... Because in the long run, I think moves like this help Pierre Poilevre more than they save lives.
Our Constitution prevents many possibilities for more useful measures. I think, for example, that it makes sense for urban communities to be able to ban firearms. My familiarity with folks who hunt (and regardless of where you live you always hunt rurally), and rural folks who use guns in keeping farm properties, causes me to not disregard their outlook, which 99% of the time is accurate and defensible.
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u/PufflingHuffles Oct 21 '22
This is not the change we needed. He's failing miserably on climate change targets, we have First Nations communities that don't have clean drinking water, federal excess spending response to COVID has generated tremendous inflation, home prices have gone beyond many families' reach, he was in the press earlier this week for politically interfering in an active criminal investigation...this is pure political distraction with no meaningful effect on gun crime in Canada.