My concern with “it sucks here I want to leave” is that it’s very anti-patriotic. While I love firearms and this community, I love my actual country - the landscape, culture, and core values - even more than that.
I’d prefer stay, contribute my productivity and taxes, participate in my civic duty to vote, and ultimately try my best to engage politically to improve this place rather than leave. I also believe that’s the patriotic thing to do.
More power to you m if you want to leave, especially if you’re not interested in permanent residency or citizenship but I definitely think it’s a bit misguided to leave simply due to the status quo politically. This is especially the case given the current legislative changes being made in the US. Trump isn’t exactly pro-2A and many states are actively harming their gun communities much like here (like Virginia, cali, etc). We actually have less restrictions here than some specific states.
I get what you're saying but I don't necessarily agree. I've been a Canadian citizen since 2005. Back then it was something to have pride in. And I don't chalk it up to the status quo, considering I've watched and did my so called civic duty of voting just to realise it does nothing it's all an illusion and a joke. At least 3rd world despots admit to it unlike here. I don't care much for Mr.Trump either so don't throw me into that crowd. I'm just a pragmatist if anything.
I can respect your perspective! That said I’m trying to engage more beyond voting myself, and we definitely need reform since our first past the post system isn’t really great IMO (I’m interested in what a real coalition government could do for us).
That said, voting still matters. And things can change in basically any country you go to so at some point settling down and giving back to wherever you land does have benefit.
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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26
Ah dang, I pissed off the elbows up crowd it seems lol