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I've commonly seen Canadian gun owners expressing concerns about, as well as extremist anti-gun zealots threatening, that a day might come where the RCMP was sent door-to-door in search of newly prohibited firearms. So, let's take a closer look at this idea... 1/17

The worst part, is that they constantly use US gun crimes as part of their justification, and US gun control efforts as the basis for what they call to enact here... We've never had anything even remotely resembling an "assault weapon" problem, but US gun control groups have sunk massive amounts of money into that messaging, so our groups happily ride that momentum to make progress needlessly banning guns here. Basically all the recent gun control in Canada has been 100% US-style.

@davidportier That's a feature, not a bug. Canadian public safety policy is designed to leverage Canadian sentiment against "US-style gun laws," while doing nothing to prevent gun crime, so that the appetite for yet more gun reform continues unabated.

We sneer at Americans and guns, but Toronto has a WAY worse gun problem and you're all in denial. In T.O, you get shot at: > Salsa festival on St Claire > The Danforth > Nathan Philips Square Raptors Victory Parade > Cumberland St > A pub in Scarborough > Michael's on Simcoe > Exhibition Place > A school parking lot in Etobicoke "This is what happens in a big city" is an utter lie by incompetent, weak people. Lock the bad guys up.

I can't tell which part is worse here... That you supposedly have a PAL, but missed the detail that your name in the database of firearms lisence holders is checked against CPIC daily... Or the part where it's 2026, and you somehow still seem to think that checking one database against another would take a room full of staff doing it manually...

@Feral999 Oh Tom. You don't really mean to suggest that Alan Drummond is vetted daily by the RCMP just because he owns a rifle and a shotgun? Is that what you mean to say? Surely you don't mean to mislead the Canadian public?

What the CBC doesn't tell you. I went to the StatsCan report: Among the 923 people accused of firearm-related IPV in 2024: 66%- had previously been accused of some criminal offence; 56%- had previously been accused of violent crime; 36%- had previously been accused of IPV; 11%- had previously been accused in a firearm-related incident. Seeing that legal firearm owners are RCMP-vetted daily, it is doubtful they are part of this group. @CanadasNFA cbc.ca/news/canada/gu…

@RealChange__ @RTErdogan Even with a pal, handgun transfers are frozen and he couldn't legally take possession, at least under the regular rules... Honestly, and I hate to say it, but that they're having it deactivated to put into a museum is probably the most appropriate decision they've ever made...

#BREAKING: Mark Carney receives a .357 Magnum Revolver with his name engraved on it as a gift from Turkish President @RTErdogan at the NATO Summit. It comes complete with ammunition in a fine wooden case. Now Mark just needs to apply for an RPAL, oh wait Trudeau banned handguns.

@War_Machine63 @GunloverClub1 Not looking down the sights either, just basically firing blind... If this is supposed to be training to actually fight, it's sloppy and making bad habits.

@GunloverClub1 That's where you're wrong. She's being trained for life or death scenarios. She's not waiting for the cavalry, because she's the cavalry. If you're offended by it, you can cry me a river. Enough with the soymilk.

No eyes protection, no ear protection and a finger glued to the trigger, the adults in charge here need a serious lesson in firearm safety.

It's even better when you include 'assisted suicide' in the overall numbers. Official numbers, ten year averaged: Overall rate 11.8/100k 44% hanging/suffocation 25% poisoning 16% firearms 15% other Full numbers, same averaged period: Overall rate 50/100k 76.4% MAID 10.4% hanging/suffocation 5.9% poisoning 3.8% firearms 3.5% other If we're arguing that choosing to die early is bad, Alan's cohorts are over 20 times worse than guns...

Firearms are a distant third in methods of suicide … and account for between 13-16% He doesn’t want to talk about that though. They don’t matter to the agenda.

@SportsmanOn He's still arguing like suicide is bad, while he's a doctor in a country that supports ever broadening MAID under the justification that ending your life at the time of your choice is your human right...

Crazy this jackass keeps droning on about this, after being challenged again, and again. A plain old Hunting Rifle will kill you just as effectively as an "ASW". Does he want some banned, or all banned, he claims the former, pick a lane jackass.

@reddit_lies Give it a few years, wider shot pictures of these tents will be in YouTube "documentaries" about the global Tartarian Empire, as examples of the great and wondrous architecture that was destroyed to cover up their existence...

Oh wow, the temporary structures aren't made of real stone? Nothing gets past you, Reddit.

@PrairieVeteran He'll probably just detour by his home in the US, and drop it off there on his way back...

Does our prime minister hold an RPAL? IF NOT HE BROKE FIREARMS LAW.

@Calibremag He'll just stop off at home in the US on his way back, and drop them off there...

Same goes for Carney.

@BourgaultGilles @BoswellDoug You lot don't understand how a shadow cabinet is paid, at all, do you?

@BoswellDoug You forget to say that is to pay it shadow cabinet is is more that 2x bigger that PM cabinet.

Hey yowclown. This has been explained over and over and over. The bulk of the expense went to the Office of the Official Opposition for salaries etc. Pierre's actual MP expenses were one of the lowest of all MPs. The reason that Trudeau's is so low is that the PMO expenses are not included in the PMs line. Check your facts.

100% it's not that 'the Internet' lied to her, it's that she's not actually interested in the types of men who tell her that they wouldn't care about her past. Clean cut, professional type guys, who made good decisions in their youth, are largely just out of her league. She should be looking for guys with dead end jobs and less prospects, who spend their spare time simping over cam girls on the Internet.

As a Canadian, subject to lisencing for gun ownership, I always love these ideas of making gun lisencing like lisencing to drive a vehicle... No minimum age to buy a g car. No restrictions on what kind of car you can buy. No background checks or mental health assessment needed. Lisence and attached requirements only apply to use your car in a public road...

I’m sure this is going to piss people off, but we need better gun laws. We license drivers, and we should license gun owners the same way. You should have to pass a basic competency test, show that you understand gun safety, and pass a psych exam specifically designed to identify people who are in crisis or planning violence before you can be licensed to buy and own guns. Furthermore, any domestic violence arrest should temporarily suspend your license and lead to the removal of your weapons, with permanent revocation and confiscation upon conviction, even for a misdemeanor. The combination of domestic violence and gun ownership is especially deadly. Gun ownership is an awesome responsibility. It is far easier to kill someone with a gun than it is with a car, and yet we allow people to buy guns whether or not they have the first idea of how to safely handle one, and without making sure that they are psychologically fit for gun ownership, all to honor the wishes of a group of people who lived and died at a time when 3 or 4 shots a minute was considered to be rapid fire. Yes, gun ownership is the right that protects all our other rights. Yes, most people who want one should be allowed to buy one — but those who shouldn’t, REALLY shouldn’t, and I believe a licensing process is a small price to pay for lowering the number of gun deaths. There would have to be strict oversight, an appeals process for rejections, and severe punishment for anyone who arbitrarily or maliciously denies a license application, and a bunch of other details would have to be worked out, but I think this is a good place to start.

@NotaliaMateo They'll do like they did with the fun ban court case. Declare the information to be a matter of national security, then change to declaring it a matter of cabinet confidence when a judge with clearance wants to see it anyways...

So let me get this straight - they're going to sue us for misinformation which mean they'll be subject to discovery which will prove it correct and then what? This goes about 3 rounds of high-profile cases until they drop the strategy.

@Flickanelde @HazelAppleyard So? That's what they are...

@chalackd @HazelAppleyard You said "jeets"

He literally fed his elderly vegetarian mother with dementia a clearly labelled chicken tikka masala and somehow it’s his wife’s fault

@Flickanelde @HazelAppleyard Right, because recognizing that tikka masala and sag paneer are ethnically Indian foods makes someone racist 🙄

@chalackd @HazelAppleyard Ah, so just a straight up racist.. gotcha

@Flickanelde @HazelAppleyard Jeets living in Britain doesn't make them British.

@chalackd @HazelAppleyard British, not Indian

@Ethan113554 I can understand it as far as they have religious headwear, so don't want to wear a helmet... But how did we accepted that something like riding a motorcycle is somehow a right for them, but a privilege for everyone else...

🚨Ontario's Motorcycle Helmet Law & Sikh Exemption Ontario mandates helmets for motorcycle riders to protect against head injuries, backed by OPP safety campaigns & the law. Everyone else faces fines or charges for riding without one. Why exempt turban-wearing Sikhs from this rule while enforcing it strictly on all other citizens? Crashes don’t discriminate by faith or head covering. Shouldn’t uniform road safety apply equally to everyone, regardless of religion? Does selective exemption strengthen trust in fair law enforcement, or undermine it? #cdnpoli

Between some of the more modern reactor designs, and more modern reprocessing techniques, today's problem of nuclear waste (which isn't actually all that big) could be rendered intoa small fraction of what it is. All that's really holding it back is the political climate around the subject, and understanding that today's industry doesn't need to be stuck in the technology of the 1960s.

If one can of nuclear fuel can provide a lifetime of energy requirements for one person, where are they going to put the 70 million cans of waste for 10,000yrs? NB. There is only one new UK nuclear waste depository and it's located right on the very north coast of Scotland. 🤔

@DanFriedman81 Honestly, if you were talking about poorly stored DVD+/-R discs maybe not lasting 5 years without degrading, you would've had a fair point. Discs kept in decent storage conditions, especially factory pressed discs, will easily last way longer than that...

Before streaming, I was a big DVD collector. I bought nearly a thousand movies. I thought I was building a library. And I will tell you a secret: DVDs rot. The glue that holds the layers together can become opaque so the laser doesn’t read the disc properly or it can simply degrade so the disc falls apart or it can warp or expand so the disc won’t spin properly in the drive. So, in addition to needing to keep antique hardware with delicate moving parts in working order to play these games or watch these movies, the media itself is degrading. Yeah, your purchased digital movie might get deleted from the network over rights issues at some point in the future or the service that provides it might shut down. But if you buy a BluRay and put it on a shelf for five years and then decide to watch it, there is a decent chance it won’t work. I love a beautiful Criterion movie box set or a game with cool box art and a manual as much as the next guy, but people overly romanticize physical media. The universe is governed by entropy and everything is falling apart.