r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Feb 06 '23

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23 edited Feb 06 '23

Copied and pasted this because I feel like it's worth restating. Last week was great but our community needs to start pushing hard with this momentum and settling for scraps won't cut it.

1) Being happy with pre 2020 conditions, or preserving the status quo in all aspects needs to stop. Firearms needs to be seen as a right, or at least so prevalent in Canadian culture that it can't be used as a scapegoat. It's only a matter of time until C21 2.0 arrives.

2) Sports shooting, sporting rifle, etc is language that needs to be avoided. It creates a low ceiling and shaky ground for gun owners to argue in and around. Haybinger949 said it best:

"Yeah, imagine being actively targeted and vilified by almost every federal political party and media agency for the better part of 50 years and thinking your best defense is to willingly categorize yourself as no different than something as superfluous as someone who collects matchbox cars or plays frisbee golf".

Point is, it looks ridiculous when all we do is say "loog at us :DDD"

3) Overall, gun owners need to shift the culture from a hobby / casual past time to a lifestyle and everything else that comes with it.

E: I forgot to add but continuing down the sports shooting narrative will eventually paywall us and make gun culture here exclusive to rich old people similar to how it is in some euro countries. I think we're already seeing it with the NDP being pro-handgun ban except for "high level" sports shooting and ultimately pro-AR15 ban.

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u/FunkyFrunkle Feb 06 '23

There’s an opening too, since the liberals begrudgingly admitted to hunting and self defence. If guns * can’t* be used for self defence, why do police have them?

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u/CenturionV Feb 06 '23

Can't as in they think it should be illegal to do so, not can't as in it isn't possible. As far as the liberals are concerned, you dying in a violent home invasion is better than having Canadians legally use guns for self defense. They barely even want the police using their guns to defend themselves or others let alone normal people.