Last week, Statistics Canada released the numbers from the 2022 Unified Crime Reporting survey and found that crime has risen from 2020 to 2022 by 5.3 percent, with violent crime specifically going up 9 percent nationwide.
The good thing to come out of the O’Toole era of the Conservative Party is that the current CPC leader, Pierre Poilievre, has seemed to have learned the right lessons. Polievre has taken a strong stand in favour of firearms rights while also expanding the image of what responsible gun ownership looks like.
Over the last 40 years, we’ve seen an increasing disregard on behalf of the government when it comes to fundamental rights. Whether it’s property rights, free speech, or the completely reasonable idea that you can defend yourself from violent attacks, the government seems to put a significant amount of effort into convincing people they shouldn’t have any rights at all. Unfortunately, many Canadians now agree with the government on this topic.
Documents, from 2019, provided to Burlew by a crown prosecutor with regard to a case he is currently working on behalf of a client, appear to contain information that could only have been obtained through the registry.
This past Friday, Justin Trudeau spoke out regarding a letter from gun control advocate group PolySeSouvient (PolyRemembers), a group with close ties to Ecole Polytechnique which, as most Canadians certainly remember, was the site of a gruesome mass shooting in 1989.
Although many firearms owners can be quite pessimistic about the future of firearm rights in Canada everything is far from over as things currently stand.
Many firearms owners often feel like gun confiscations are inevitable in this political climate, but Altis retroactively rejecting the contract shows that if the firearms community is large enough to push back on the Liberals attempts to ban firearms. The Liberals are the ones that are clearly on their back foot when it comes to putting their OIC gun ban into action.
One of the things law-abiding Canadian firearms owners find most frustrating about the Liberal federal government attempting to take away their property is the non-gun owning publics’ naive approval of the whole situation.
“Evergreen” means that the rifle ban would be able to be automatically updated adding in new rifle models at will. Blair tried to justify this stating that, “because we know that the gun industry is agile and adept at bringing forward new models and variants in order to try to get around the rules,” which is just another way of saying that industries sometimes makes new products which Blair seems to think is an affront to him personally.
Wilson also brought up the fact firearms are not even close to the main method driving increasing suicide deaths. She said that, “It is noted that firearm is a distant third in preferred method of suicide and accounts for between 13-15% of all suicides in Canada, showing that the greater issue is a need for better mental health overall.”
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