Re: [OT] Trudeau bans even more guns

On 2024-12-07 2:06 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 12:40:10 -0500, Rhino
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Trudeau going after legal gun owners yet again is of only the slightest
benefit to reducing gun crime. At most, it would reduce gun crime by
legal gun owners to zero when it's already minimal while doing NOTHING
whatever to discourage the kind of gang-related shootings that are now
routine in this country. And I don't just mean in Toronto or Montreal.
The shooting is getting routine even in the lesser cities in or beyond
the GTA. I expect it's the same in BC.

 If anything, the drug situation (particularly fentanyl which is
primarily made from Chinese made components exported to the Mexican
gangs and manufactured there) is considerably worse in BC than in the
Greater Toronto Area.
  From what I hear the shooting situation in BC is primarily about
"disagreements" between the various drug gangs. Certainly the last
time I heard about a firearm murder in Vancouver it was about some
poor guy who was crossing the street when members of the drug gangs
had a "disagreement".
 Most of this is in the Surrey area (which is Vancouver's largest
suburb with a population of 500-600k) which I don't pay much attention
to as it's the opposite side of the city from me.

It's too bad the NDP got re-elected: a new Conservative government *might* have taken meaningful steps to stop that nonsense in BC, although it might not have been able to do much given Trudeau's efforts to push the "safer supply" baloney.
If there's any sense left in this country, Trudeau will be gone soon. Then maybe we can start to repair all the damage he's done, including taking meaningful steps to block guns coming up from the US, undoing some of the more senseless gun laws, and ending the enabling of public drug use. Increasing our defence spending to meet the NATO floor of 2%, dramatically downsizing the civil service, whittling the deficit down, ending DEI, privatizing the CBC, making friends with Israel again, and a host of other things are going to be on that list too.
I don't know if Poilievre will have the balls to do everything that needs doing but I think his heart is in the right place. He's got to be better than Trudeau who really, truly needs to go back to the only job he's qualified to do: snowboard instructor.
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Rhino