r/canadaguns • u/Callie7680 • Apr 19 '26

News / Politics / Activism Genuinely curious on liberal views of gun laws

Hello all. Looking for a debate on the other side of all of the gun laws / bans from a liberal point of view. How does it ACTUALLY make sense to liberals with the current laws. C21 was passed with hopes of lowering crime? How is that going? The OIC. How has the crime rate gone since? How are these “liberal experts” in power thinking this is actually going to make a difference? Canada could 100% ban every single firearm and gun crime would not go down 1 bit. I don’t really know any liberals to talk about it with I’d actually like to hear their side on it. I’m clearly not an expert on any of this but it just seems so ridiculous

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u/AgreeablePanda9805 Apr 19 '26

How is wanting women only spaces transphobic when women are a protected class that had to fight for the rights to women only spaces?

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u/Q-Ball7 In the end, it's taxes all the way down Apr 19 '26

women are a protected class

If men aren't a protected class, why should women be?

Boomers and Gen X believe, axiomatically, that women > men- so they vote in support of policies that advance that worldview. "Ban all gunz now" is a symptom of this problem; most of these people think guns are just another way for evil men to shoot holy women.

The younger generations have a different take, but they don't vote so it doesn't matter.

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u/jwubadubdub Apr 19 '26

You'd probably appreciate what Helen Andrews has to say on the subject

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u/AgreeablePanda9805 Apr 20 '26

Men are also a protected class.

Sex is a protected class just like race or religion, etc.

I disagree with the generality that boomers or gen x believe women > men.

I’d argue that it’s probably the younger generations (millennials, gen z, whatever is after them) are more likely to believe women > men bc they tend to buy into that hierarchy of oppression that likes to rank people by identity and determine what rights a person should based on a comparison to whose life is worse than theirs.

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u/ComplexQuiet6790 Apr 19 '26

I'm not going to bother arguing with you. Trans women are women. End of story. 

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u/TheGreenBastich Apr 19 '26

Cool story them/them.