It’s like divine retribution or something, it’s so virulently contagious. Jacinda Ardern goes into a bathhouse with Justin Trudeau for just a few minutes and the next thing you know a bunch of Canadians who never hurt anybody are being summarily disarmed.
Ottawa under pressure to tighten gun laws after swift action in New Zealand
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won praise from gun control advocates around the world for her fast work in tabling new firearms restrictions following the Christchurch mosque massacre. Now, Ottawa is under heavy pressure to follow her lead.
New Zealand’s sweeping ban on so-called “military-style” semiautomatic firearms has prompted Canadian activists to redouble their efforts to pressure the federal government to further tighten the law here. They’re calling on the Trudeau Liberals to first pass what they see as the relatively timid reforms included in Bill C-71 before moving on to more controversial changes — such as a handgun ban.
“The government of New Zealand has swiftly and responsibly responded to the atrocities … by almost immediately committing to ban the type of weapons that facilitate such extreme violence,” said gun control advocate Nathalie Provost, a survivor of the 1989 gun massacre at École Polytechnique in Montreal that claimed the lives of 14 women.
“Yet here in Canada, blah blah blahdeblahblah guns bad!”
I also survived the 1989 gun massacre and Sandy Hook and etc. So what? Doesn’t make me qualified to advocate squat. I also survived the Skylab re-entry, so I should write NASA’s policies. Sheesh.
This has been all blown out of proportion. Yes the anti gun crowd are trying to get Trudeau to ban handguns and “assault rifles” but it ain’t working. While the call to ban things is out Trudeau and company have bigger things to worry about like staying in office. There’s an election coming up in October and, thanks to the SNC-Lavalin affair, the odds are slim that Trudeau and the Liberals will retain their power.
But even if they do, the system of keeping track of who owns what, handgun/assault rifle wise, is so flawed there is no way they will be able to enforce it. The previous Liberal attempt at a universal registry back around Y2K included a brand new license system and re-registering everything. Well, a lot of people took the opportunity to not bother re-registering their handguns and AR’s so now those guns are all out of the system. Depending upon who answers the question, between 40% and 90% of the registration records are garbage.