Why is it that the Left ALWAYS assumes that anyone that owns a gun, especially the dreaded “assault weapons,” is a raving lunatic just ready to go postal? You know, like they themselves who yearn to let their raving totalitarianism out of their skulls, souls, and hearts?
They hate the idea of allowing anyone having the same Force that Government is rage waiting to happen – yet they don’t recognize that same problem in themselves.
Mostly, I think they think that everyone else is just like them in this regard – so they trust no one. Well, we don’t trust you as well and all of our armed friends in the frigid North of us think the same of their Left as well (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Nice Canadian Gun Owners Raise a Middle Finger at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Assault Weapons Ban
Not one to let a potentially politically beneficial crisis go un-exploited, Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau rammed through a ban on “assault-style weapons” and other scary-looking guns in 2020 after a 12-hour spree shooting that resulted in 22 people dead in Nova Scotia. As Prime Minister Zoolander, who seems to get his talking points from Shannon Watts, said at the time . . .
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada,” said the prime minister. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.”
Well now – most of us here in the Lower 48 believe that Canadians are much less likely to “rebel” against government mandates that we whose very country was born out of violent, anti-government, stick-it-up-your-patootie outlook. After all, as the title above says, they’re “nice” (unlike we have been branded as Domestic Terrorists who have only been trying to live up the Left’s most popular phrase of “Dissent is The Highest form of Patriotism!” – boy, did that ever have a half-life of femptoseconds once they lost Power, right?).
Sure, I’ll go there – they exist to prevent the Tyranny of the Power Mad and Greedy that seemingly REALLY want to learn the lesson of “what happens when they continue to refuse to leave us alone” and we know we are law-abiding. They just can’t help themselves in working only through the Collective lens that if one can go rogue with such, ALL are guilty (when we’re not). And Canadians are showing the same gumption and determination that those in New York, Connecticut, California, and other locales that have believe that “NOT INFRINGED” actually means something:
…Only 160 firearms that the Liberal government prohibited more than a year and a half ago have been deactivated or surrendered, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. …
“The Canadian Firearms Program (CFP) can confirm that, as of Dec. 9, 2021, 18 firearms (formerly classified as restricted) affected by the May 1, 2020, Order in Council (OIC) have been deactivated,” added Sgt. Caroline Duval, the spokesperson who forwarded the Mounties’ response.
“In addition, there have been 142 OIC-affected firearms recorded as surrendered to a public agency for destruction since May 1, 2020.”
And this is the highly amusing bit:
…How do we know? Because Canadians flooded gun stores and bought at least 30,000 more AR-15s in the run-up to the ban. And ARs were just one of 1500 models that were outlawed. That means the measly 160 guns that have been turned in so far aren’t even enough to qualify as a rounding error.
The 2020 order compelled them to turn in their banned guns for destruction by April 30, 2022. Yet 99.9 % of them have yet to do so.
There’s supposed to be some buyback program to get these guns out of the snow off the streets but that’s not likely. If you rushed out to buy an AR-15, are you really believing that the Government is going to give you the cash + a buyback premium for your troubles?
Yeah, me neither.
(H/T: The Truth About Guns)
