Sad - seeing all the handgun sales
- Thread starter marlin58
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There may be defensible logic in that, but in practice the US turned guns into a religion. Like literally, God, guns, and the US constitution are all on the same footing.
Even the aforementioned keeping guns from mental patients, pretty much any attempt at common sense gun laws runs into a brick wall built by absolutists.
In a way, it's actually the cause of our current legal dilemma.
this is not the wild west of ccw even in the usa as it constitutionnally approved in any states ... return to similar regulations that were in place when harper was in charge is not enough in my opinion but if you are happy with what and come to cry in 20 years why not ...
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- Nova Scotia
I'm always buying and selling handguns to fit my ever changing choices. Been doing that for nearly 20 years.
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You are totally correct . Many Canadians do not like guns because they have no idea of the current Canadian gun laws , and base their decisions on what they see going on in the U.S. . Most gun crime in Canada is committed with smuggled firearms , but the Liberal propaganda specialists always leave that fact out , and blame it on law abiding and vetted Canadian firearm owners . If most Canadians actually knew how heavily firearms are regulated in Canada , they would be okay with private firearm ownership . Trudeau frames gun ownership as bad , and Canadians believe him .
I'm envious of those who already have their handgun collection, purchased during sane times. After an excruciating process to schedule my training course and wait for my RPAL to arrive during the height of covid, fscking Trudeau then turns around and says no more handguns for you. I've had to go from 0 to 100 learning everything I can about handguns from forums and Youtube, figuring out what handguns I may want to own, and trawl every vendor site daily looking over rapidly changing 'in stock' inventory, grabbing anything I could remotely see myself enjoying in the future. All of it at inflated and ever increasing prices, having never handled anything, and with the knowledge that if I don't like something I've bought I'm stuck with it because I can never sell it (thanks again Trudeau, really appreciate that last point). I have no choice but to pay the high prices or never get another chance. I've resigned myself to just buy whatever interests me if it's within my means, and not think about the cost too much right now. It's an investment in my future hobby. Fsck it. As midlife hobbies (crisis?) go, it's still cheaper than a Ferrari.
It's not that they don't "get it", it's that they simply do not care at all, not one bit. They don't care about legal gun ownership because it does not effect them in any way.
