As we have seen the far-left are all about virtue signalling even if the results prove it is a fail. What I am having a hard time understanding about the handgun ban and the mandatory buyback is the rationalization for it. I have the same basic arguments for the right to gun ownership as other libertarians, and I get that not everyone agrees with it, but the justification for the bans seems lacking in the extreme.
1) New Zealand just issued their own mandatory buyback after a terrorist attack. They had a 10% compliance rate. It put 90% of their guns into the blackmarket, which is where gun crimes come from. It increased criminal access to guns rather than decreased it.
2) Law abiding gun owners are low-risk for violent crime. It is part of getting a firearms license. With a mandatory buyback, the RCMP is taking its resources it could be spending on high-risk individuals and instead focusing them on low-risk individuals. It is preventing the RCMP from doing their jobs properly. Instead of punishing peaceful law abiding citizens it is time that the RCMP crosses on illegal smuggling operations. Get tough on criminals however the Liberals are instead giving softer sentences.
3) The statistics gun control advocates use are extremely selective at best. The advocates will include Japan’s harsh gun control laws and low crime rate, and contrast it with the United States’ permissive gun control laws and relatively high gun violence rate. But they omit Switzerland’s permissive gun laws with a low crime rate, and omit Russia’s restrictive laws accompanied by a violent crime rate three times higher than the United States. It is disingenuous. The differences are due to other external factors like culture and poverty.
It strikes me as little more than what I call as ‘bad guy pro-wrestler’ psychology. Trudeau is intentionally trying to antagonize an audience for his own marketing purposes. He antagonizes gun owners, to get them to do his marketing for him. They will go online and make posts that scare inner city white people, and run into the loving arms of Justin Trudeau. He does ‘bad guy pro-wrestler’ psychology on COVID vaccines, on abortion, where he can accomplish nothing but wants votes on these issues anyways. If this were anything other than a political move, he would not be adopting the policies New Zealand just implemented when they failed. He is dividing the country for political purposes.
1) New Zealand just issued their own mandatory buyback after a terrorist attack. They had a 10% compliance rate. It put 90% of their guns into the blackmarket, which is where gun crimes come from. It increased criminal access to guns rather than decreased it.
2) Law abiding gun owners are low-risk for violent crime. It is part of getting a firearms license. With a mandatory buyback, the RCMP is taking its resources it could be spending on high-risk individuals and instead focusing them on low-risk individuals. It is preventing the RCMP from doing their jobs properly. Instead of punishing peaceful law abiding citizens it is time that the RCMP crosses on illegal smuggling operations. Get tough on criminals however the Liberals are instead giving softer sentences.
3) The statistics gun control advocates use are extremely selective at best. The advocates will include Japan’s harsh gun control laws and low crime rate, and contrast it with the United States’ permissive gun control laws and relatively high gun violence rate. But they omit Switzerland’s permissive gun laws with a low crime rate, and omit Russia’s restrictive laws accompanied by a violent crime rate three times higher than the United States. It is disingenuous. The differences are due to other external factors like culture and poverty.
It strikes me as little more than what I call as ‘bad guy pro-wrestler’ psychology. Trudeau is intentionally trying to antagonize an audience for his own marketing purposes. He antagonizes gun owners, to get them to do his marketing for him. They will go online and make posts that scare inner city white people, and run into the loving arms of Justin Trudeau. He does ‘bad guy pro-wrestler’ psychology on COVID vaccines, on abortion, where he can accomplish nothing but wants votes on these issues anyways. If this were anything other than a political move, he would not be adopting the policies New Zealand just implemented when they failed. He is dividing the country for political purposes.