r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 22 '26

Recurring Canadaguns Politics and Debate Thread

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u/DoYouGetSarcasm Jun 25 '26

I feel like poly could have used this tragedy to show a win for gun control, to say "look, the bans are working, only 1 person killed by a gunman!". They could have said gun control is working because this guy didn't have a very capable gun/magazines. They could have highlighted how this evil gunman's terrible deeds killed as many people as the police's little oopsie that's getting swept under the rug.

But it's poly, the act of pushing for more control is what sustains them. There's never enough, there's no end point, just more more more.

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Jun 25 '26

They have made a career out of it. They can’t stop. If they were a group that ever existed in good faith they would have pushed the firearms act and that’s that. Now if they were to still exist in that hypothetical they would only be demanding a return of the LGR. But they never existed in good faith. Or if they did those days are long gone.