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

Weekly Politics Thread

Please post all your Politics or Ban-related ideas, initiatives, comments, suggestions, news articles, and recommendations in this thread. Unless new information is published in the media, recurring articles related to the gov'ts ***possible*** legislation are to be posted here. These threads will be weekly, until it's necessary for another per-week.

Previous politics threads can be found here. Previous threads can be found here.

We understand that politics is a touchy subject, and at times things can get heated. A reminder of the subreddit rules, when commenting, where subreddit users are expected to abide.

21 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

310 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

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?

2

u/Rook_Defence Feb 06 '23

Do you have a link to the self defence bit? I saw something where Mendicino talked about "personal defence" when talking with an indigenous group, but that seemed ambiguous enough that it could have been related to ornery wildlife rather than murderous people.

2

u/FunkyFrunkle Feb 06 '23

That’s probably what it was. There’s a couple of brief interviews out there where they mention personal defence but I can’t remember which ones. They’re out there.

1

u/Rook_Defence Feb 06 '23

Yeah, I remember being really surprised when I saw that, but then I looked at it again from a "where are the weasel words" perspective and I was less enthused.