r/canadaguns • u/Low_Bar_804 • Apr 19 '26
News / Politics / Activism Owning guns- Right or Privilege?
So obviously here in Canada our government sees private firearm ownership as a privilege rather than a right. My question is, how you guys feel? Do you think gun ownership is a right or a privilege?
When you look at other things people view as rights, such as abortion, freedom of expression and freedom of religion etc. These are all viewed by most as inherently “good rights”, but in many countries these rights are restricted. I think, along with many others, that it is justified to ignore unjust laws that restrict human rights.
I personally believe that firearm ownership is a fundamental human right because it protects all of our other rights and freedoms from being taken away. So even though legally speaking firearm ownership is a privilege that can be taken away at any time here in Canada, I don’t agree with the way our country and many others treat firearm ownership.
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u/swpz01 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
There's a king, everyone in Canada are property/subjects of the king even if that power has yet to be exercised. There are no such things as "rights" when one is/are property/subjects. Rights are for free men. This applies to everything and anything, firearms are just one thing we like to talk about. Covid showed that they could lock Canadians in the country and prohibit them from being able to leave.
Abolish the monarchy, form a republic, and we can talk about rights. But the chance of Canada doing this voluntarily is essentially zero. Canadians, after all, are descended from people who *wanted* to be owned by a king rather than be free as the Americans chose.
Canada has done an excellent job hiding from the world that they are all but a dictatorship/monarchy wherein the regime holds absolute power even if the regime is "elected" (who are we kidding though, the same party wins 70% of all elections across the last 4 decades which is tinpot dictatorship levels of hilarious). Canada pretends to be democratic when there's nothing democratic about it beside being able to "vote" for a local representative who can influence policy in no meaningful way anyways (leader holds absolute power and can evict people from the party at will). Neither is there accountability (see South Korea where presidents are impeached and thrown in prison/sentenced to death, etc).