The numbers for declared firearms has recently come out and bc has the most firearms declared per capita and Quebec numbers are surprisingly low, judging the whole point of this gun grab is to win votes in Quebec
That's because the majority of the banned firearms are in BC and AB, and to a slightly lesser degree in ON. I have an ATIP somewhere where Public Safety examined the number of registered impacted firearms per province, and IIRC, British Columbia and Alberta represented something like 60%, Ontario another 25%, and all the other provinces combined made up the remaining 15%.
Compounding this, Quebec's numbers are low because the existence of their provincial registry suppressed the adoption of exactly the guns that were banned.
Nathalie Provost and Poly Se Souvient have been very clear that they see legal gun owners as the real problem. Nathalie is convinced that gun culture itself is a malignancy that breeds spree shooters.
She thinks the tactical crowd is practicing murder every time they pick up a firearm. That's why they target anything even remotely tactical in appearance.
If the tactical crowd switched to 18th century black powder smoke poles and ranked abreast shooting, the Liberals would be quick to ban the Brown Bess. They have mentioned wanting to go after anything with "a military lineage". Given how loosely they've been defining variants, military lineage includes pretty much anything that goes bang.
On a meta level, this is just how ever -ism on the planet works.
Provost's life outlook is extremely sexist against men [and boys]- perhaps due to life events- and targeting the guns is just a proxy for that (which is why their related propaganda is "to protect wimminz and girlz").
A racist is very scared of guns in the hands of [hated demographic] because they fear reprisal, and the more ground they lose, the more they believe they are in danger and the louder they scream about how evil [hated demographic] is.
I see no reason a dyed-in-the-wool gyno-supremacist wouldn't feel the same way. The West is just objectively a less sexist society.
I think at least some of her militant feminism is due to the fact that the Poly Tech shooter was a misogynist.
But, she'd rather focus on punishing the gun community than equipping women with the means to fight back.
As I've said a few times so far: 30 yrs ago Nathalie Provost was a helpless victim at a terrible tragedy. She's spent her entire life since then trying to make sure everyone else gets to be a helpless victim too.
I know a girl who was in the same regiment as him, everyone knew there was something wrong with him, she told me "you should have seen the way he looked at women, it was terrifying, pure hatred”
he was a sociopath and likely a psychopath too… someone who would have never been allowed to own a gun in the first place… he stole the mini-14 from the armory
I repeat HE DID NOT ACQUIRE THAT GUN LEGALLY HE FUCKING STOLE IT!!
So her going after legal gun owners specifically makes no sense
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u/awesomebouncer123 Apr 07 '26
The numbers for declared firearms has recently come out and bc has the most firearms declared per capita and Quebec numbers are surprisingly low, judging the whole point of this gun grab is to win votes in Quebec