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Canada's Trudeau announces bill to cap sales, transfers and imports of all handguns in the country - CNN
I consider myself to be something of a "gun moderate".
I own guns, I have a permit to carry, I understand the practical aspect of guns for both recreation and defensive purposes while also understanding the need for some requirements to be met before one should have them.
On this one, I think Justin is playing a bit of a "popularity game" here.
Even his own statements highlight a bit of a contradiction:
"Trudeau added that while most gun owners use their handguns safely and in accordance with the law, "we don't need assault style weapons that were designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time."...so either he's claiming that a handgun is an "assault weapon", or he's openly admitting that he's seeking to ban a type of gun that he openly admits most owners in his country use safely and responsibly.
He made the announcement in the wake of two mass shootings here in the US (when Canada, themselves, don't have a mass shooting problem).
Is tightening down his own country's (already strict) requirements, based on events that happened in a neighboring country, really a pragmatic policy prescription? Or is it because he's trying to appeal to "amen corner" of his own political base?
...and furthermore, is he potentially having a counterproductive effect of stoking fear in said neighboring country that may be making more people resistant to certain gun control measures? ...as now all people have to do is point to what he's doing and basically prove out their slippery slope theories.
I consider myself to be something of a "gun moderate".
I own guns, I have a permit to carry, I understand the practical aspect of guns for both recreation and defensive purposes while also understanding the need for some requirements to be met before one should have them.
On this one, I think Justin is playing a bit of a "popularity game" here.
Even his own statements highlight a bit of a contradiction:
"Trudeau added that while most gun owners use their handguns safely and in accordance with the law, "we don't need assault style weapons that were designed to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time."...so either he's claiming that a handgun is an "assault weapon", or he's openly admitting that he's seeking to ban a type of gun that he openly admits most owners in his country use safely and responsibly.
He made the announcement in the wake of two mass shootings here in the US (when Canada, themselves, don't have a mass shooting problem).
Is tightening down his own country's (already strict) requirements, based on events that happened in a neighboring country, really a pragmatic policy prescription? Or is it because he's trying to appeal to "amen corner" of his own political base?
...and furthermore, is he potentially having a counterproductive effect of stoking fear in said neighboring country that may be making more people resistant to certain gun control measures? ...as now all people have to do is point to what he's doing and basically prove out their slippery slope theories.
