Gun Control and Irrationality
Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada have gone from reasoned to irrational since coming to office almost ten years ago. One specific area where over reach has become irrational has to do with firearms in Canada.
I am all in favour of controlling weapons and the access of weapons to criminals. Unfortunately the measures that are being taken by the Federal Government will have no effect on keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals. The banning of weapons from law abiding citizens simply is a political exercise, designed to garner votes from those on one extreme end of the liberal electorate.
The weapons that are most utilized in crimes are those being brought across illegally from the United States. While the number of guns being sold illegally in Canada, is on the rise, it is the criminal element that is the problem, not the hunter or marksman who stores his weapons and ammunition safely to ensure that if their property were ever broken into, that a thief could not access those weapons.
By banning weapons, and not providing full reimbursement to those who own them, the government is simply ensuring that weapons will either be sold illegally or hidden. It is the opposite of rationality. If the Canadian government wants to ensure public safely that badly that they will treat all Canadians with now banned weapons as potential criminals, then the least they can do is reimburse owners for the full value of the weapons they chose to ban.
Many gun owners, like myself, don’t hunt. We shoot as a hobby and/or compete as marksmen. By banning the weapons we utilize for sport, not even hunting, the government is being irrational, heavy handed and irresponsible. For marksmen, these guns are fired at indoor ranges, where we have paid dues annually to be able to fire these federally approved weapons. It was the Liberal government that just two years ago deemed these weapons to be legal, now, only to have them made illegal after the same current Liberal government previously banned 1500 weapons for sale, use or resale in 2022. The currently now additionally banned weapons (as of October 30th, 2025) were bought as ‘approved firearms’ under the legislation that, again, this same Liberal government created, just two years ago.
What this suggests to me, quite clearly, is that the current government doesn’t have a clue in relation to policy development that impacts a significant percentage of the Canadian population, both in the urban environment and rural. Fortunately, it would seem that Canadians will end the tenure of the Liberal Party in the next election, resoundingly. Canadians, myself now included are fed up with Trudeau’s arrogance and knee jerk reactionary decisions.
Gun laws for the transport and use of these weapons already ensure that legitimate and lawful gun owners pose no risk with these weapons. They cannot be transported without being unloaded, without ammunition, trigger locked and ammunition within a locked ammunition box, separated from the weapon. If an individual were to not follow the laws, already in place, seizure of the weapon and criminal charges would be pursued.
Canada now sits in a precarious position in relation to both sovereignty and security for its citizens.
We currently live in a world becoming increasingly dangerous and chaotic, particularly since Canada now abuts a country where chaos is about to ensue, – disarming Canadians seems like an even more irrational response. If Canada’s military were in a position to secure the sovereignty of Canadians, I would feel much happier than at the present time. The existing Canadian government has allowed the Canadian military to degrade to such a state that it’s probable they would be completely ineffectual against any sort of serious incursion onto sovereign Canadian territory, and now Canadians will be in a position whereby they cannot even defend themselves.
Police are becoming increasingly overwhelmed in Canada’s major cities due to the activities of criminal gangs. Many of these gangs have formed from within populations that have immigrated to Canada and from within foreign countries where crime and gang activity has been allowed to flourish.
The statements from the previous two paragraphs would have seemed like an absurdity to me in my youth. Today, it seems the most rational response one can have to the impending disaster that is being visited upon the United States of America is to take responsibility for your own safety. I have virtually no trust that the United States will not at some point in the not distant future invade Canada to secure its own strategic aims.
The United States is now led by a kleptocratic sociopath, intent on creating an autocracy and to the destruction of democratic institutions in the U.S. Personally, I will never again trust America to secure the sovereignty and security of Canadians, or to maintain an honest and open relationship that assists both economies. America cares only about America, and its self-interest.
It is absolutely time for Canada and Canadians to reappraise their relationship with the United States, regardless of how difficult that may prove, – as becoming subjugated to America and its interests is something I personally have no interest in accommodating. I am sure that if Canadians had that question posed to them formally, Canadians writ-large would reject America’s politics and societal beliefs currently on display.
Personally, I also have no faith in our Federal Government to do anything that will secure Canada’s interests. Justin Trudeau willfully grovelled to Trump just this week, rather than stand up and be counted in opposition to Trump’s ignorance and arrogance.
The dilemma facing Canadians is that neither can Canadians trust the Conservative Party of Canada which caters to the extreme right wing fringe within Canada. Without a viable alternative, it would seem irrational for those of us who use our intelligence and logic to willfully accept decisions made by either a Liberal or Conservative government, as it isn’t representing the values of most Canadians. It seems questionable whether either party are willing to protect and secure Canadian security and independence of action on behalf of Canadians.
I have no faith that either or both parties will not sell out Canadians in the long run to Capitalist Kleptocrats and the 1% in the United States.
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