r/canadaguns • u/Revolutionary-Owl576 • Jul 28 '26

Shooting Pure freedom🇺🇸 Trip to the usa

Honey badger 300Blackout suppressed

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u/Panjaab1 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

Agreed. As a Canadian that was born and raised in this country, I have definitely seen the dwindling of our freedoms, in recent years, especially with recent legislation.

The USA definitely has its fair share of problems but I will never understand dismissing positive aspects of their legal frameworks/society to compensate for the downsides of our state of affairs.

I mean I think as gun owners we have all seen the law turned against us by our own government. If we had legislative framework/charter provisions to prevent this, it would’ve never happened in the first place.

Edit: to those who are downvoting, is anything I am saying genuinely wrong or incorrect? I don’t understand how as Canadian gun owners, on a Canadian gun sub, we have neutered ourselves into thinking our current state of affairs is remotely ok if it means we are morally superior to the US.

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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26

I've lived in 4 different countries, been a legal gun owner in 3 of them. Im an immigrant to Canada and have watched this country deteriorate first hand. I try to make the best of what I can here like all of us do with guns, but its dishonest to say that we have more freedom than USA or that our situation isnt straight fucked.

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u/Lord_Space_Lizard Jul 28 '26

The Human Freedom Index disagrees with you that the USA has more freedom than us.

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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26

Oh sorry, you said Human "Freedom" Index? What governing body came up with that metric and who funds it?

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u/CryingHardly Jul 28 '26

This guy gets it

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u/The_King_of_Canada mb Jul 28 '26

Its an NGO that measures every country on various metrics. This guy gets a lot of propaganda in his socials.

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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26

I don't do social media. I travel and have a job and education that requires me to travel to foreign lands. You don't even try to one up me there pal.

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u/lolingcats Jul 28 '26

Easy mistake to make, assuming a guy making points contrary to presented evidence is fueled by social media. Guess rephrasing is needed: "Guy thinks his anecdotes are above evidence." That more palatable? 

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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26

Yeah. As a matter of fact, yeah. My lived experiences or anecdotal evidence is much more real than what others say it is. And I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Call me a fool all you want, but I see the world person by person, place by place, experience by experience.

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u/lolingcats Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I would not dare call you a fool. Even a fool can accept that lived experience does not constitute evidence other than testimony. Further still, you are supposedly too worldly. No, you are much worse. Confidently ignorant, maybe. 

But hey, at least your straight up about it. 

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u/coniferslav Jul 28 '26

Man, come on. Get off the high horse. Lived experience is the most real evidence you'll ever receive. But if you want to judge others and call them ignorant, that's on you. I won't hold against you what you've been told to think about others who share different beliefs than you. So as long as you don't resort to violence, I don't care man. I can be civil.

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u/lolingcats Jul 29 '26

No high horse. You're the worldly one here.

It is the most VIVID evidence one can receive, absolutely. Not the most 'real.' Eyes can deceive, worse still, so can people. If you are as worldly as you say then you should know.

You should hold it against me, I'm the one saying it, not some made up being you conjured. I own what I said. Funny you think someone told me to think you're ignorant. Its easy to minimize what someone is saying when you pass it off as not their own.

We are in agreement about violence.

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