Never let a good crisis go to waste.

[RedRocket1647545505]

Poor Canadia

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

PUBLISHED: 05/01/20 01:34 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that Canada is banning the use and trade of assault-style weapons immediately.

 

Trudeau cited numerous mass shootings in the country, including the killing of 22 people in Nova Scotia April 18 and 19. He announced the ban of over 1,500 models and variants of assault-style firearms, including two weapons used by the gunman as well as the AR-15 and other weapons that have been used in a number of mass shootings in the United States

 

"Canadians need more than thoughts and prayers," Trudeau said.

 

The Cabinet order doesn’t forbid owning any of the military-style weapons and their variants but it does ban the use and trade in them. He said the order has a two-year amnesty period for current owners, and there will be a compensation program that will require a bill passed in Parliament.

 

In the meantime, they can be exported, returned to manufacturers, and transported only to deactivate them or get rid of them. In certain limited circumstances, they can be used for hunting.

 

“You do not need an AR-15 to take down a deer," Trudeau said. “So, effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade, assault weapons in this country.”

 

Trudeau said the 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,” he said.

 

Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, but Trudeau said they are happening more often. Trudeau noted he was nearby when in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college in 1989. The Ruger Mini-14 Lepine used is among weapons included in the ban.

 

Trudeau has said his government would introduce further gun control legislation prohibiting military-style assault weapons, a measure that had already been planned before the coronavirus pandemic interrupted the current parliamentary session.

 

“As of today the market for assault weapons is closed. Enough is enough,” Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said.

 

The gunman in Nova Scotia, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, shot 13 people to death and set fires that killed nine others in one of the worst mass shootings in the country's history. Police have said he used a handgun that was obtained in Canada and long guns that he obtained in the U.S., but they have not specifically said what guns he used. The rampage started with an assault on his girlfriend and it ended with 22 people dead in communities across central and northern Nova Scotia. A number of people had disputes with the gunman.

 

Blair said two of the illegal long guns that Wortman used are now on the list of weapons banned. He declined to identify them. He said making such guns illegal in Canada will make it harder for criminals to obtain them.

 

“Every firearm begins legally and then moves into an illegal market,” Blair said.

 

Opposition Conservative leader Andrew Scheer accused Trudeau of using the “immediate emotion of the horrific attack in Nova Scotia to push the Liberals’ ideological agenda and make major firearms policy changes.”

 

Scheer said the Nova Scotia shooter did not have a firearms licence, so all of his guns were illegal.

 

“Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop dangerous criminals who obtain their guns illegally,” Scheer said in a statement. “The vast majority of gun crimes are committed with illegally obtained firearms. Nothing the Trudeau Liberals announced today addresses this problem."

[10phone2]

I see what you did here.

[Otis Nice]

Worked for Chicago.

[Otis Nice]

"Canadians own an estimated 34.7 firearms per 100 people, according to Small Arms Survey’s 2018 estimates, making it one of the highest per-capita firearm ownership rates globally. In contrast, per-capita firearm ownership in the U.S. is 120 per 100 people."

[nurkvinny]

And there is what a single Liberal politician can do in the wrong position.

[Mitch]

But they're not coming for your guns, it couldn't happen here...

[nurkvinny]

But they're not coming for your guns, it couldn't happen here...

 

Sarcasm appreciated.

[unfunnyryan]

Crisis, manufactured or not, is the go to way nowadays for one party to push agenda.

 

Look at the shit dems were trying to include in the stimulus package...

 

It's just the fucked state of politics now.

[Otis Nice]

But they're not coming for your guns, it couldn't happen here...

 

"Canadians own an estimated 34.7 firearms per 100 people, according to Small Arms Survey’s 2018 estimates, making it one of the highest per-capita firearm ownership rates globally. In contrast, per-capita firearm ownership in the U.S. is 120 per 100 people."

 

I'd say it'd be a bit harder but I do understand what you're saying and would say that this SIP order (not to make this another coronAIDS thread) has shown just how willing folks are to give up certain liberties (not making an agree/disagree statement here), how easy it is for politicians to take them (not claiming either side is better than the other), and how easy it is for folks to turn a blind eye to many things happening when one pointed topic is crammed down their throats.

[Mitch]

It was sarcasm Otis, you know me better than that.

[Otis Nice]

It was sarcasm Otis, you know me better than that.

 

...yeah. That ones on me. 1 self inflicted demerit.

[Mace1647545504]

So does canada have a 2nd amendment like statement in their constitution ?

 

If we get a really left leaning president I don't think it will happen here. I JB get elected I don't think he would ban ak/ar type weapons.

 

I could be wrong and my wife will tell you that I can be wrong a lot