r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Aug 17 '26

Recurring Canadaguns Politics and Debate Thread

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u/SlowDebate3165 22d ago

There’s been a not-so-subtle shift from suspicious accounts here trying to pin the blame on Trump, or on Pierre for not running a good enough campaign. As retarded as some of these takes are, the basic indisputable truth remains:

The Liberals banned your guns. The NDP voted with them to ban the guns and uphold the bans. The Conservatives voted against them.

The Liberals expanded the bans. The NDP voted with them again. The Conservatives voted against them again.

This country is cooked either way at this point, so maybe it doesn’t really matter. But anyone trying to frame any of this as the fault of ANYONE other than Carney, Trudeau, the Liberals, or the NDP is either an abject moron or letting their worldview/ideology seep into their posts.

They’re lying to you. They’re spreading subtle propaganda.

Not that it matters, but don’t fall for it.

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u/Lumindan 22d ago

Its a reoccurring thing every time there's a large political moment. Some of them do it for free, others are just brigading from different subs (if you know, you know, that discord isn't that hidden lol). If you have the reddit enhancenent suite it's easy to flag those people.

We see the same users asking the usual questions (often laced with pp bad talking points). My personal favorite is the one where they'll cheer for unity but they'll actively attack certain people because they aren't on the same political spectrum.

The buy Canadian thing doesn't hold up too well either when it comes to firearms because the same government promoting it is also totally fine destroying local businesses because they're not ideologically aligned. Hell we're already seeing businesses take advantage of it, again (Tim Hortons, Loblaws etc.) it's virtue signalling to the highest degree.

There's people in this very thread who act like shits sweet but they were pro buyback and government just a month ago. Absolute clowns.

If people were truly pro Canada they'd stop shilling for Carney and giving him free passes (I've seen amazing leaps in logic about how Carney is 5d pro gun) and actually start asking for transparency and accountability.

Consumer debt is now 2.6 trillion but who cares about that or rampent immigration and wage suppression, it's all orange man bad baby!

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u/JerkyMan360 21d ago

B-b-but muh elbows up

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u/floydsmoot 22d ago

>The Liberals banned your guns. The NDP voted with them to ban the guns and uphold the bans. The Conservatives voted against them.

Yes they did. The point you're missing is the vast majority in this country either hate guns or don't give a shit about them (more of the latter I suspect). Guns aren't important to them. Until that changes, nothing will.

If PP would have won the election (all polls pointed to a majority for him), I'm sure we'd have way more gun owners in this country in the next 4 years or so (especially RPAL types). The only thing a politician understands is votes.

Even the lefty Dems in the US understand this. They can scream all they want about banning this or that, but it will never happen because so many people own guns for self defence and they would get voted out.

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u/boozefiend3000 22d ago

I know it’s the fault of the Liberals and NDP. I also know the conservatives were a shoe in to form the next government until Trump brought up the 51st state shit. Then the liberals rebounded in the polls. It’s pretty safe to put blame on him 

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u/Due-Candidate4384 22d ago

I blame Canadians. The fact that the Liberals rebounded shows that it was never about policy or cost of living or anything like that. People literally just got bored of Trudeau’s face and wanted a new one who looked more senior. They wanted a big daddy to protect them from mean old Trump. The psychology is actually quite fascinating. Truly a population of puerile children. The Liberals know this well, which is why they treat Canadians like idiotic toddlers and keep up the “elbows up“ shit. They’re basically jingling their keys at us every now and then.

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u/boozefiend3000 22d ago

Yep. Nothing to respect about these people 

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u/Agonizing-Stroke1812 22d ago

if that's all it takes, then all blame lies with the voter base

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u/boozefiend3000 22d ago

Well, ya. This country doesn’t produce smart people 

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u/Agonizing-Stroke1812 22d ago

Disagree - it does, but it fails to retain them and has failed to do so for decades

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u/boozefiend3000 22d ago

That’s a fair point