r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • May 23 '22

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube May 25 '22

Patrick Brown posted this earlier today

I will scrap the Firearms Act in its entirety and work with experts — including law-abiding firearm owners — to replace it with a new law that takes protecting our streets just as seriously as does defending the rights of Canadians.

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u/Beemo1999 May 25 '22 edited May 25 '22

Absolutely horrible timing for such an announcement given what happened in Texas.

Edit: I don't know why people are downvoting. I never said I personally disagree with his proposal, just that it was released at an unfortunate time.

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u/throwa37 May 25 '22

I don't know why you're being downvoted either, but sadly, if we're going by proximity to American mass shooting tragedies, there's never a good time. The venom in their politics and lack of mental health supports is resulting in a shocking number of these atrocities lately.

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u/Armed_Accountant Whoever wants to touch my guns has to touch me first. May 25 '22

Lets not dance around just how easy it is to get a gun in the US especially privately, and the reluctance of the political sphere to change anything about that in the name of [diminishing] freedoms.

Those other topics are big, but this one makes them far worse.

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u/throwa37 May 25 '22

I'm not dancing around it, I think it's less of a factor than its made out to be (though it is obviously a factor).

Something I've been thinking about lately: when you consider that every fourth household in this country has guns in it, you'd expect far more of these shootings to be happening here, if access to guns was the problem that the grabbers make it out to be. And it's not like the PAL does much more to filter people than a NICS check in the States at point of sale.