Dano

I've commonly seen Canadian gun owners expressing concerns about, as well as extremist anti-gun zealots threatening, that a day might come where the RCMP was sent door-to-door in search of newly prohibited firearms. So, let's take a closer look at this idea... 1/17

You mean the comparison between how provinces are constitutionally defined as separate bodies from the Federal government, with defined exclusive jurisdictions where neither is subordinate to each other. Versus municipalities which exist as bodies with their power, boundaries and responsibilities delegated to them directly as legislated by provincial governments, with no constitutional boundaries on what say provinces have over their affairs?

It's always 'this government', 'the UCP' with these people... As if problems with healthcare exist only in Alberta, and there aren't similar problems with the system all across Canada, under every political party that's had a turn at leadership.

Mass shootings are the most statistically rare criminal acts of violence in Canada. Tracey did spell it out in the post referenced under this post from @Polysesouvient. While most guns that end up in RCMP hands are domestically sourced, those guns come to them for a variety of reasons and all get lumped into the same statistic. Those which the average person would consider to be an actual 'crime gun', the ones used in the violence plaguing our streets, are overwhelmingly illegal from their first moment in Canada, smuggled across the border by organized criminal operations. As to how many mass shootings are required before we can justify gun control? Honestly, all of them, because gun control has proven to not be an effective way to address mass shootings. We have tons of gun control that literally nobody argues is unjustified, gun owners and our lobby groups overwhelmingly support a lot of Canada's gun control measures in general. But time and time again we see people completely circumvent every measure in place, to commit acts of violence, and the response has always just been calls for more of what is already shown to not work. We need to stop pretending that some specific gun, or undefined group of guns is the problem, because that's an obviously ineffective angle to address problems like this. We need to instead get serious about addressing the social factors behind why people are driven to commit such acts. We need to get serious about the criminal market for illegal guns. We need to stop allowing our courts to be soft on the people running and supporting this illegal trade, and on those who invite and enable across of horrendous violence.

Cigarettes in Canada have become so ridiculous with their legislated packaging requirements... First it was simple warnings on the package. Then the warnings had to be changed to scarier language. When people kept smoking, they next decided that there needed to be nasty pictures added to the packaging. After that, it was required that the ugly warnings had to take up 75% of the package. From here, somebody decided that nothing could be flavoured anymore, so no more menthol 'old lady' smokes, among other things. That still wasn't good enough, next they banned logos, brand colours and imagery, and made all packaging use an ugly brown colour and plain font. From there, they went on to decide that packaging had to be standardized in a pocket-unfriendly size, with warnings even more dominant. That all still wasn't good enough though, they continued by requiring warnings on each individual cigarette. Now they decided that the flap inside the package has to extend around 75% of the way down, just to make the package even more annoying... It's been common knowledge since the very beginning of this all that smoking is unhealthy. It's ridiculously expensive in Canada, thanks to hefty taxes on them, around double the price as they would be in many US states, and around at least 5x the price of tax free First Nations cigarettes. They treat Canadians like invalids, incapable of understanding that something might be bad, but that we might want to do it anyways. It has to be one of the most ridiculous examples of government creep over what's still a completely legal product, and looking at all this, it's no wonder that the illegal trade in largely unregulated First Nations cigarettes is recently being recognized as a growing problem...

There used to be a lot more access to wilderness areas. Not in the sense of fully developed roads like you are in developed areas, but all sorts of basic roads and trails were pushed through by industries so that they could access resources. But we've spent decades up here shitting all over the industries that accessed these remote places. We largely don't allow oilfield exploration to make proper cut lines, we don't allow as much logging, what we do allow gets excessively burdened with fees, bureaucracy and taxes, to the point that they just don't want to do the work anymore. We've also have government that promised more resources like water bombers, but never followed through. They refused foreign offers to help fight fires, and even often block interprovincial efforts. I would also posit that for quite a while fires were often fought too aggressively, allowing fuel load to build up way too much. We have vast areas in some parts of the country where invasive pine beetles killed basically all the trees, but they won't let anyone in to clean that up. Environmentalism and anti industry sentiments got taken way too far, and now we're paying the price

I guess I've been getting to many ratios on @Polysesouvient lately, they've finally blocked me... Losing their battle must be a hard pill too swallow.

I guess @Polysesouvient has finally decided that they really don't want an honest discourse around their calls to ban guns... I've been calling them out for years, and they've finely decided to block me. I think the reply that pushed them over the line was to their post about the recent police shooter just being a misogynist, and that needing to be addressed. I thanked them for finally acknowledging that it isn't a gun issue, it's a social issue...

I see lots of chatter currently, about all the looming government surveillance and data retention laws that are in the works. A lot of it about what the costs are going to be, to create the physical capacity on the networks to save all the additional data that will need to be stored, and to monitor everything so much more closely to have any chance of actually enforcing any of this... What does everyone think was the actual reason that they're trying to build thousands of massive "AI" datacenters, everywhere you turn in Western nations? To better provide AI services that people aren't really buying into using? To let people make that much more AI generated slop images and videos? I suspect that they know the current AI bubble is likely to burst, and that governments are backing all this infrastructure because they'll be able to take control of most of it under the premise of bailing out bankrupt companies and saving jobs, then they'll have all the capacity they'll need for their Orwellian surveillance state, without having to justify building it themselves.

Product must be garbage, if they have to use this blatant of AI video to advertise it...

Bought a vehicle as a spare/replacement beater at an auction last year, no problems disclosed up front regarding it's status. Had a bad collision in my current car recently, and decided I had better get all the little things fixed on the new car, so I could get it ready to insure and register. Granted, I should have checked earlier, but I had my repairs done and decided to get a vehicle information report before my mechanic inspects it, and I now realize it's under a salvage status. What a pity, it's perfectly ready to pass a regular insurance inspection, but has enough other little things wrong that it's probably not worth putting through the salvage inspection process... What a pity, days of work that I shouldn't have done, parts purchased, and the car is basically for for parts for another car I don't have. What a pain in the butt our system is, here in Alberta, with what's allowed to pass for active status cars, versus the lengths they make you go to for anything with another status, or from out of province.

This aligns with my suspicions that the guns were his, likely bought for him by his mother, who possessed then on paper alone...

Funny how the like to use a US source which lumps things like gang-on-gang violence in with things like school shootings. They're just not comparable in the first place, nor are US statistics in any way relevant to the Canadian context.

Priceless... Guy calls me a Liberal, and blocks me, because he can't figure out how government petitions work, or understand that elections agencies are only involved when it's a petition to put a question on a ballot...

No, I'm saying that years ago the House of Commons implemented an official channel to conduct online petitions, because it's not the 1950s anymore. It faces the same scrutiny, oversight and rules that any other official petition has to adhere to, that's the key difference between these and junk like 'change dot org' petitions. Anyone can approach their MP to support an official online petition, the exact same way that this one is being carried out. The 'rules for thee' are exactly the same as the 'rules for me'. And this process was implemented in March 2015, months before the Liberals took office, so it's not even a Liberal change.

What a nice message my government seems to be sending towards the US, while things like a potential threat of being annexed by the US is being discussed... Military planners did their modeling, and have just reported that our conventional forces might last a week before all strategic positions are overtaken. May be as little as two days... With that in mind, they talk of relying on unconventional tactics, like having civilian guerrilla forces engaging in more independent, distributed warfare. All this at the same time as they've decided to push ahead with civilian disarmament, reiterating their belief that no Canadian needs access to any firearm design that is less than 150~200+ years old... They're actively attacking the very base of the population who would be best poised to begin the kind of resistance that they think would be necessary to fend off an invasion.

This ban already went through the courts, who ruled out unconstitutional. The Federal government is now wasting taxpayer dollars appealing that decision... Furthermore, the federal government just decided that they would again allow the production of these products for export, which defeats their own argument that they're toxic waste products. It would be common sense to scrap the plastics ban.

My bad, they're not more likely to be struck down by lightning than struck down by a school shooting... They're about as likely to be struck down by lightning as struck down by a school shooting ... (Had to repost to reply because the OP was a sissy and blocked me for pointing this out)

If you got rid of all the guns, what would the next madman or terrorist use to commit mass murder? Guns. They would still use guns. You could implement the most terrible, overreaching, violent and invasive regime that the world has ever seen. You could send agents of that state door to door, to entirely dismantle every home, dig up every yard, and react to every instance of non compliance with a swift and decisive death penalty, in an effort to remove every gun from public circulation. At the end of it all, they would still get guns to commit their heinous crimes. Unless you're ready to dismantle all of industrialization, all of society, thousands of years of technological advancement, to the point that people could no longer work a piece of metal, or engage in basic chemistry, you'll never make the gun go away. At this point, it's easier than ever to simply make guns. Not even just 3d printed novelties. CNC machining is cheaper and more accessable than ever. CAD is widespread and accessible. Even the ability to learn manual machining and metal working techniques is easier than ever. There's more access to the materials, to the niche aspects of working those materials, and to the manufacturing processes specific to firearms. The cat is thoroughly out of the bag here. The bag itself is shredded beyond repair. There's no going backwards from this point and it's pure folly to still think in the terms of the past, that this can somehow still just be reasonably gatekept, and that anyone who's interested enough couldn't just make what they want, even if they somehow couldn't just easily access it through channels outside the control of an individual regime. It's time to look for different approaches, because traditional gun control is largely a relic of an era that no longer exists.