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  • I am really fucking tired of this argument. Gun control in Canada has was never about public safety but was always about fear of people actually challenging the government. You know why in the recent years passing laws still using Polytechnique as the reason despite more recent (and deadlier) mass shootings? Because it was never about that.

    In the 19th century and early 20th century gun laws in Canada were fuelled entirely by anti-Irish and anti-immigrant racism in general. In the 1970s the first real long-gun control was spurred by Quebec independence movements and in the 90s it was neither Polytechnique nor the Concordia shootings that spurred the modern gun license scheme. It was the Oka Crisis that had actual large numbers of armed First Nations forcing the government to negotiate instead of bulldozing over their land.

    As for having enough gun rights for everything we need? Have you been living under a rock? Since 2020 the gun bans in Canada have gutted almost all shooting sports. Handguns cannot be obtained anymore, 3-gun is effectively dead, and they’ve banned thousands upon thousands of models of guns that were formerly non-restricted and uncontroversial, and now they stated they’re going after shotguns and they’re putting hinting at putting any shotgun with any kind of magazine on a to-ban list. They’ve also banned so many semi-automatic rifles that there are very, very few models that are legal, and I guarantee you, they will likely be mentioned soon.

    They stated that any gun with a detachable magazine is not off the table for a ban. Do you understand that basically every single bolt-action rifle made after WW2 has a detachable magazine? It isn’t a war on gun crime. It is a war on shooting sports. Canada now, you might find hard to believe, likely has fewer legal gun models than the UK.

    In the UK their licenses are harder to get, but if you get them, there are no magazine limitations, manually operated AR-15 are legal, and there are no illegal semi-auto rimfire rifles or magazine restrictions on them. In Canada they effectively are going to ban almost all semi-auto rifles and they’re going after many bolt-action rifles.

    On top of that, the laws in Canada have never been proven to be effective. They’re also extremely expensive and have never delivered on their promises of gun confiscation despite the massive claim that it has.

    Tell you don’t understand either guns or gun laws in Canada without telling me you don’t know that.
















  • What pisses me off even more than hiding war criminals is the fact that we are living in the time of the greatest assaults on privacy that humanity has ever seen and countless ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ bullshit and yet at the exact same moment we are seeing stuff like this.

    Forget advertising… I can’t remember a time when I bought something due to a targeted ad, but it is 100% about curtailing opposition to the government. They don’t care if you are an armed terrorist (or maybe they do… they want you to at least try to mobilize your plans so they can either claim it a success or justify the need for more) or just an activist trying to make real change.

    I remember back in the 90s when reading social studies books about environmentalism and they mentioned several South American activists who were machine gunned for their anti-logging activities. Despite all the hubbub about that there was not a single damn mention of how fucking evil those companies were and basically had the violence depicted as normal.

    No one has nothing to hide. Especially if you think you have nothing to hide. There is no such thing as information that can’t be used against you in some way. Also the people at the top seem like they only got there due to a life of white collar crime or facilitating such. Donald Trump is amazingly secretive about his finances and was convicted of all charges of financial fraud.

    They are going to make it possible for only the biggest scum to rise to the top. Basically if you want to make it big in the corporate ladder you need to do serious bullshit. Same for politics. How do you do that when you have committed serious shit? Well the fact that you figured a way to do it despite all that surveillance will be the point. Those that get caught are weeded out.

    And heaven help you if you are trying to make the world a better place. If you were ever poor and had to shoplift to survive once in your life… they will make it public and make it that you cannot be trusted… but if it turned out you were a fixer for killing environmentalists in some third world country? Well then, expect the media to call it BS, a huge lawsuit against whistleblowers, followed by them not showing up in court because they committed suicide with multiple gun shots to their own head.