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

Weekly Politics Thread

Please post all your Politics or Ban-related ideas, initiatives, comments, suggestions, news articles, and recommendations in this thread. Unless new information is published in the media, recurring articles related to the gov'ts ***possible*** legislation are to be posted here. These threads will be weekly, until it's necessary for another per-week.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

so what are the thoughts on the Uvalde school shooting?

Disasters like this are central to discussions of gun control.

I know most of the takes are going to be garbage, interested to see if there will be anything new and reasonable in the replies.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

this isn't a bad assessment of the current situation in Canada.

The garbage takes I regularly see here in the weekly politics thread and other posts are the objections to the existing gun control system. Like the OIC, magazine restrictions, prohib listings.

The majority of participants in the politics thread advocate removing the controls because it's inconvenient for legal shooters. Or outright calls for carry permits and shooting ppl for property defense.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

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u/Doctor_Dabmeister May 26 '22

I've only had my RPAL for 3 years so I can't speak for anything that happened before but I can't help but feel that firearm advocacy groups never bothered to engage the public until recently in the past year or so. They've been mostly preaching to the choir.

The only major thing I've heard that they arranged was the Range Day in June but barely any ranges are posting about it in my area. To make matters worse, many ranges have year long waitlists and have policies that discourage you from bringing in guests (at least in Ontario).