Liberals’ push for gun buyback program fuelled by pressure from Quebec, public safety minister says in leaked audio
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Liberals’ push for gun buyback program fuelled by pressure from Quebec, public safety minister says in leaked audio
Posted by IHateTrains123
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Archived version: [https://archive.fo/I1FDt](https://archive.fo/I1FDt).
!ping Can
As a true maple syrup-blooded Canadian who thinks gun ownership is weird and cringe, I don’t get the obsession with buybacks and further regulation. Since when do we even have a gun violence problem?
The competencies of this minister are bordering on hilarity.
> At one point, Anandasangaree made personal promises to his tenant, offering to pay the difference to the man if the federal government’s compensation is not as much as what he paid for his now-banned guns. At another, he tells him he would bail him out if he is arrested for non-compliance, though he insists it’s up to police to enforce the program and “it will not go that far.”
Wow. He’s done.
> However, the gunman was not a licensed gun owner and had smuggled most of the guns used from the U.S.
3 smuggled from the US, 1 sources illegally in Canada, another taken off an RCMP officer he murdered.
> “Don’t ask me to explain the logic to you on this, OK?” Anandasangaree says when the man raises this.
My God lmao.
Once again: Canadians have become so absorbed with American media and American political culture that they have forgotten what country they live in.
This neverending obsession with gun regulation is idiotic and a shoddy attempt to regulate a way out of an incompetent handling of a mental health crisis. We can’t regulate our way out of gun violence for the same reason we can’t solve drug addiction by criminalizing it, stop homelessness by making it illegal to sleep outside, or stop burglars by banning the sale of lockpicks: there are fundamental, core reasons why this is happening, that have nothing to do with access to the tools one needs to do it.
Guns aren’t even that hard to acquire in countries where you can’t access them legally *at all*. You can make fully-functional automatic weapons in a few hours with a lathe and some parts from a hardware store, and it will be just as capable as being used for murder as any weapon used by a mass shooter or mugger. Even ammunition, which is usually harder to make, is still not particularly hard to make or acquire with the right connections or equipment.
Admitting that their policies are performative, ineffective, expensive, and unfair. Everything that gun owners accused it of being!