to quote someone (u/panjaab) from reddit (r/onguardforthee):

This article is a prime example of the diminished journalistic integrity within this country and here are the following reasons as to why. Air rifles/pellet guns, BB guns, and other immitation rifles are also considered firearms under canadian law. How many immitation rifles are considered in this quota? No one knows and that fact was conveniently left out.
Nothing is said about how many were stollen and how many were used by licensed PAL holders during a crime. All that is said, is that they were traced back to canadian origin, but this is a broad term.
If a police officer witnesses a firearm at a crime scene, they will attempt to trace the firearm using the serial number, even if the firearm was not used in the crime itself. This also counts towards traces. If a firearm that was actually used in a crime, does not have a serial number, it will not count towards the trace quota.
What is a “crime gun”. Is it a firearm used in a murder, a theft, firearms that were improperly stored, or firearms which were stored in a safe and confiscated due to the death of the PAL holder?
What is a crime gun? Is it a gun that was used in a murder, robbery, improperly stored, or confiscated from a household where the PAL holder died?
They excluded Ontario and Quebec from the data. 2 provinces with close proximity to smuggling networks.
TLDR: article is worded to mislead people and is likely an attempt to use a falsely trumped up wedge issue to divide voters. Who is paying for these articles?

And if I can say something, this is a likely a political stunt done very close to a Supreme Court hearing on the gun grabs in Canada that haven’t yielded any results.

Also the exclusion of Ontario and Quebec is HUGE. These are the more populous provenances in addition to them being closest to firearm smuggling rings.

It is about control. One thing that I kinda had to give to it (begrudingly) to the pro-gun Canadians who adopt American style talking points about government overreach in every aspect of life ‘starting with gun control’ (note: it was never just gun control alone or first. They always passed things concurrently. More surveillance, less privacy, less everything, and more and more control for the few over everyone else), and while I am not going to say dumb shit like we need guns to overthrow our government or intimidate people on the streets like they do in the US, but I cannot help that everything IS part of a grander scheme to make sure that have neither the means nor the willingness to do anything. Basically destroying our ability to organize and communicate and getting rid of any potential leaders well before hand.

The problem with that is carrying long guns on any of those protests (assuming it was legal) would have brought down massive heat on the whole thing from the government and they would absolutely push laws against it immediately.

But your mention of the pipelines is interesting. I should mention that during the Oka crisis the problem was some developer illegally wanting to make golf courses on First Nation land (no joke. Fucking golf courses!) If the Watsu’wetens were able to show up armed the situation with them would have been very different than now.

And as for environmentalism in general? I did learn that being a Greenpeace activist, especially against the French, is one of the most dangerous jobs out there. The French have murdered so many activists it isn’t funny, and often times for things no greater than throwing paint at an oil tanker.

Beef prices are skyrocketing due to the smallest herds in decades. Due to diseases, deregulation, and climate change. Even if they resolve many of those issues, I doubt the supermarket monopolists will dare lower prices and still toss massive amounts of food in the trash and let them rot instead of lowering prices or giving them away.

Fun fact: In the very early 80s when Ronald Reagan first became president, they had a glut of cheese in the United States. Originally many people just… wanted to throw it away it away in the ocean, but some people persisted and made it so that it was given to needy people. Food doesn’t have to be crazy expensive and get more expensive every year, but their profit driven crap will absolutely ruin all the farmland and end up causing very real famine in places that haven’t had famine in centuries.

Guns laws both in Canada (as I mentioned in my big-ass post) was entirely concerned with government opposition and not mass shooters. The polytechnique shooter came at the right time for the government to point to him and not the Oka Crisis as the main catalyst behind the modern gun law scheme in Canada.

So I’m a licensed RPAL holder (and I got handguns before the 2022 freeze on handgun registration, which is bullshit and I pray it gets repealed, even if it takes several more years). Canadian firearms law right now has been hyperfocused on banning as many different models of firearms as possible. It actually wouldn’t be feasible to ban semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, but they’re doing it in such a way that they’re basically looking at every model made or being made and banning it by name. This is how we get lists of 15,000 individual rifle models and several thousand AR-15 variants (the AR-15 is basically banned in Canada right now. But they have barely collected any one of the rifles that have been prohibited).

In historic terms, gun laws were all about controlling ‘undesirable’ groups in society. That means minorities, First Nations, and any leftist/labor union. Despite what the Liberals would like to say, I seriously doubt Polytechnique was the real catalyst behind the current system passed in 1995, and was probably due to the Oka Crisis were First Nations people with AK-47s (which was likely made prob in 1995 very specifically because it was the main rifle they had in their arsenal). Polytechnique happening shortly before in 1989 was a great boon to that movement. BTW, despite it being decades ago it is STILL cited as the number one justification why continued restricted are necessary. I would go on about how much more dangerous it is to have ignored incel and incel culture (the Polytechnique shooter was a proto-incel), but that is beyond the scope of it.

Before the Oka Crisis, there was the October Crisis in the 1970s, which was the event that spurred the first law regarding the acquisition of long-guns. Before 1977, you could walk into any gun store in Canada and buy any rifle or shotgun you wanted with no licence whatsoever. And yes, machine guns were legal until then. We like to act like Canada somehow was always much stricter than the US when historically this wasn’t the case. Silencers weren’t illegal or controlled in any way until 1969, and there are mail order catalogs where you could buy fully-automatic WW2 surplus submachine guns through the mail. I need to mention that Machine guns were never available via mail order in the US, despite what some might claim. I should also mention that the 1977 laws only controlled the purchase of long-guns, not their ownership. So if you got a FAC (Firearms Acquisition Certificate) in 1980 and bought a dozen AR-15 or Mini-14 type rifles and shotguns, and your FAC expired in 1985, you could still legally possess and use your long-guns. Ammunition was entirely uncontrolled at the time, too. No permit was required to purchase ammunition and ammunition was available at any Canadian tire and many hardware stores.

Going back further, prior to the 70s the main gun laws were based on the 1892 and 1913 criminal codes that prohibited concealed carry of handguns without a permit (1892) and transporting handguns without a permit. The 1913 law was passed due to fear of immigrants and labor unionists arming themselves (which was common at the time) and police would literally just wait outside some gun stores to arrest people who came out with legally purchased guns if they thought they were part of a union. After WW1 they tried (and failed) to pass licensing laws for long-guns, but that law failed hard due to its unpopularity by just about everyone in the country. After WW1 the threat of socialist and communist uprisings was at an all-time high. It was the First Red Scare and in many ways it was worse than the second Red Scare of the 1950s. The origin of most modern gun laws in Europe (and commonwealth nations) originated in that time. This may have been mostly an anti-handgun thing and didn’t apply to long guns, but I am not entirely sure. Handguns were still available without permit until 1934 when handgun registration was required. They had to issue a registration certificate for the handgun you wanted to get. In 2022 as I mentioned in the beginning, they basically stopped issuing those certificates, so all older registrations are still valid. Getting new handguns will be a problem.

Long story short, it was always, always, always about controlling the population at large and a fear of an armed populace wanting change. They can ignore tons of unarmed protesters, but not if even a small amount of them are armed (I can cite more examples like the Black Panthers showing up armed basically resulted in California passing highly restrictive laws to combat them, even though the Black Panthers didn’t kill anyone). The modern fear of mass shooters got started in the 1980s and 90s. There were always multiple victim public shootings and Canada has had its fair share, but I do not believe that that was the main reason. Canada had multiple shootings leading up to the 2020 OIC ban, but I am quite confident that neither the Quebec Mosque shooting nor the Nova Scotia shooting (which was done with smuggled firearms from the US) had much to do with it. COVID-19 ushered in the era of increasing authoritarian control in most countries and tech giants going public with their disdain of democracy is making it so. More gun laws is just part of a greater package.

If you’re looking to have a pro-protester/leftist militia in Canada, you’re going to find yourself between a rock and a hard place. The entire system (and I don’t just mean the gun laws) are built specifically around to prevent anything like that from happening. The last time anything like that was remotely possible would have been the 1980s to early 90s when gun laws and surveillance weren’t as advanced as today. Meanwhile the RCMP has been trying to get ‘lawful access’ to people’s internet usage without warrants since 2001 (I think pre-9/11 2001) and the latest bill C-22 is their latest attempt. This means organising anything like that will be extremely difficult without the RCMP and local police going hard on your ass.

That is because for decades pro-gun groups and organizations in the US have been cooped by fascists and right-wing people. In the US the police and government didn’t generally like to get their hands dirty very often with suppressing minorities and disliked communities, they outsourced stuff like that to the Klan. In Canada it was (and is) different.

But that would also mean the government and corps cannot spy on us! After all, corporations knowing everything about you and your location and everything from your phone and public WiFi and whatever at all is times then just selling it or giving it to the police is how we can eliminate all freedoms without actually repealing them!

If I could do anything. I would start in 1997 when I first logged into the internet.

And also build some redundant infrastructure so in the event of a US turning hostile (which it is). The post-WW2 alliance and 5-eyes network was made under the assumption that while Americans can be positively nuts, they won’t do shit like this.

But under Trump they proved they can. While Trump’s brain is mush, the movement won’t stop with him. The next president might be worse.

I did. I voted for him.

20 if you are being minimalist.

I remember the first time I heard the term left-wing liberal or mockery of liberals like they were these softies who can’t help but cry at all murderers and let them go to kill again while disarming rednecks. Also only interested in gay rights and welfare.

I am too tired to continue.

Please continue. I never heard that.

I already did days ago, and donated some money.

Did mine this weekend.

Here is what I want for all cars.

All data and telemetry is by default optional. I do not want my car being a beacon to every cellphone tower in existence. I do not want every wheel turn and engine cycle recorded. Nor do I want how I adjusted the mirrors or the seating adjusted, nor my face, my eyes, my fingerprints, my heart beat. Nothing.

If they say ‘but how can you get updates to software!’ Three ways.

1: give me the link via email and I can download them to a USB stick and install them way that if I want a fully air-gapped car (which I do).

2: have a mechanic install it during routine oil checks and other mechanical maintenance.

3:if I decide to turn on the telemetrics on my car just once for that task and turn it off afterward.

In short, I want the privacy of a pre-2009 car with the safety sensors of the a modern car and the rearward camera and other stuff. That can be done easily. We can have privacy and safety.

If some people want to leave their telemetry on all the time for whatever reason that is their business, not mine.

I think he causes cancer just by existing…

He also just thinks windmills are ugly.

Fuck!