Woke Nation States are the second most dangerous when it comes to rights, but especially the right to self-defense (personal firearms), which is why people towing lefty propaganda are such a ‘make me laugh, make me want to cry’ conundrum.
The most dangerous are socialist/communist states, of course. No rights, not even the ones the state says it might give you, because it takes them away just as easily. It is the endgame of the woke state. We see it in what used to be Western-Civilized Europe, and in the UK, and Australia, where any right to free speech is derided almost as much as a personal firearm or the idea of a right to self-defense; frowned upon, and almost always illegal or damn near about to be, and we can add Canada to that list.
The progs running the Great White North are keen to catch up to their post-colonial neighbors and return things to the good old days when the monarchy and its royal stooges held the majority on force. Funny how some people think this is progressive, which is a better label for stupid than forward, but those two words are also intertwined. In classifying Left-Wing fashion, the thing you get is the opposite of the advertising, and Canada has been rolling out a public safety plan that requires once legal gun owners to turn over their legal, now previously legal, firearms, or else.
No ex post facto, I guess, and this news follows our reporting last year on the voluntary surrender portion of the plan.
The RCMP will notify legal gun owners that they are eligible to participate in a buyback.
Those gun owners need to notify their government through an online portal that they intend to comply. The government term for this is “their intention to participate.”
If accepted (if?), they will be given an appointment at which time local police will arrange to collect the firearms.
At some point, my words, not theirs, those who did not volunteer to “participate” will have the opportunity to have them collected by force.
Canada knows where all the legally owned guns are, and fewer than 3% were voluntarily surrendered, which must have caused all sorts of worry, but not for long.
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree confirmed that retired and off-duty police officers, along with other additional resources, could be tasked with collecting prohibited firearms this spring and summer. This follows the end of the declaration period for owners, with only 2.5% of an estimated two million affected firearms declared. The minister emphasized that the plan would not draw from active police resources, noting that provinces like Quebec have their own mechanisms for such operations.
Criminals get to keep their guns because they didn’t follow the law, but with nearly 2 million firearms still in the hands of previously allowed citizens, who has time to hunt down criminals. And who’ is kidding whom? Progressive Government loves armed criminals; it’s armed law-abiding citizens they hate, and they’ve got the names, addresses, and know exactly how many firearms they have and where they are.
A few of the more outlying areas where the police don’t want them giving up their guns as much as they don’t want to go and get them might buy more than a few “It fell out of my boat while I was fishing” stories, but not enough to push back against tyranny. The cops, off duty, retired, or otherwise, will go out and get the guns, and as I noted last year, some people on both sides will likely end up shot or dead.
This will result in some new shootings that the government will use to come after more guns until not one legal, law-abiding citizen possesses the ability to shoot back at criminals, especially the ones in government.
Thirty years ago, in 1995, Canadians didn’t do enough or did too little to prevent the gun registry, which they must have known would one day be used to collect guns from law-abiding citizens, as the voluntary buyback transitions into forced seizures, and at least a handful of inconvenient but necessary deaths.
My other thought was how the forceful confiscation portion of the program might accelerate or incentivize secession movements in provinces like Alberta, which already passed the signature petition benchmark to put it before the currently armed and unarmed populace alike.
And so we’re clear, it’s not all firearms. Canada banned roughly 2500 “assault style” firearms (in 2020), so if you gave those up, they appear willing to let you keep whatever isn’t banned until they ban it. They will, eventually, ban them all. If you didn’t comply, they will take all of them and put you in jail if you survive that process.
And yes, property and violent crime will go up, more people will likely get murdered, and that will only lead the geniuses in Canada to follow their UK Brothers and sisters where knife crimes have skyrocketed alongside beating, bludgeoning, and rape gangs who know everyone is helpless and they are illegal foreigners with several more layers of immunity than the “indigenous” brits.
There will, of course (at some point), be a very successful illegal cross-border gun trade from the US, which will result in some calamity during a future Democratic Administration (Lord help us). It will probably be run by that administration, into Canada, with Canada’s knowledge, to instigate an anti-gun policy in the US.
But we don’t have a registry. Not like Canada. We also have more guns than people, and more people who know how to use them who would rather get shot at than give them up. We also have the Second Amendment.
I’m sure they wish they did. Many probably think, rightly, that the 1968 Firearms Acquisition Certificate program was a mistake, as was the 1995 Expansion. Trudeau’s 2020 handgun purchase ban, which included the “automatic” weapons ban, and the buyback that led us to today.
It starts with a registry and a system promising it won’t confiscate your guns, and is followed by more of the same until they run out of legally owned guns to take and go after everything else of yours, including whatever rights you have left.
Canada’s gun owners know it. They live in a woke nation-state, vying to “progress” to total tyranny. That’s why they didn’t turn them in, so now the Government is going to try to take them.
