Juno News - December 25, 2019


Adam Vaughan doesn’t know anything about guns

Hosted by
Andrew Lutton
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Adam Vaughn Justin Trudeau Bill Blair
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3 minutes

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Word count

665

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37

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In his response to a question in the House of Commons, Conservative MP Adam Vaughn indicated that he doesn't actually know what guns are legal and illegal in Canada. Andrew Lutton explains why this is problematic, and why the Liberals should have been honest about their agenda.

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00:00:00.000 Liberal MP Adam Vaughn just doesn't seem to know anything about guns. Now this is problematic
00:00:10.900 because he was the one tasked with standing up in the House of Commons to defend what the federal
00:00:16.040 Liberal government is doing on the firearms file. He stood up in response to concerns that were
00:00:22.100 tabled by Leanne Rood, the new Conservative Member of Parliament for Lambton-Kent Middlesex.
00:00:27.480 And in his response to this, outlining what it is that the government's doing on the firearms file,
00:00:33.100 he indicated that he doesn't actually know what guns are legal and what guns are illegal in Canada.
00:00:39.980 Take a look at what Adam Vaughn said.
00:00:41.660 The reality is that military assault weapons do not belong in civilian hands. Nobody goes hunting
00:00:46.880 with an AK-47 and I think as a Member of Parliament remarked during the campaign, if you're going
00:00:52.180 hunting with an AK-47 you might want to think about getting a new hobby because you're not a very good
00:00:55.780 hunter. He says that you shouldn't be able to use an AK-47 when you're hunting, which is valid given 1.00
00:01:03.520 that in Canada the AK-47 is prohibited and has been for quite some time, and that you can't use
00:01:11.700 restricted rifles when you're hunting. Well no, you can't because it's illegal to do so already.
00:01:17.360 There's no reason you couldn't or shouldn't be able to. The government has just already determined
00:01:21.700 that that's not allowed. His entire argument seems to rest on this idea of what Bill Blair and Justin
00:01:28.000 Trudeau are calling military-style assault weapons, a term that they've made up that actually doesn't
00:01:33.580 have any real meaning because the guns that the military actually uses are already prohibited in
00:01:40.280 Canada. You cannot, as a civilian firearms owner, have a gun that shoots in fully automatic fashion.
00:01:47.360 But this is precisely the problem here. People like Adam Vaughn don't want to let facts get in
00:01:52.120 the way of the argument. They don't like guns, they don't like the people that like guns, and that's
00:01:57.260 that. They don't want to have any further discussion on it. But Adam Vaughn actually doubled down on his
00:02:02.620 lack of firearms knowledge when someone took him to task on Twitter for that little comment he made in
00:02:08.860 the House of Commons. And they were talking about this idea that, well, the military-style assault
00:02:13.820 weapons are already off the streets. They're already out of the hands of firearms owners. And this is
00:02:18.920 what Adam Vaughn tweeted out.
00:02:20.740 Why are you worried about banning a weapon you don't seem to think you can own? Military assault
00:02:26.220 weapons don't belong in civilian hands. And then later on, he said they are restricted but available.
00:02:32.680 No one needs a military assault weapon, period, just as no one needs a bazooka. Again, he is just
00:02:39.920 using that term military assault weapon to describe gun that Adam Vaughn doesn't like,
00:02:45.600 which is a category that unfortunately is very, very large. In fact, as he's a Toronto MP,
00:02:50.060 it's probably difficult to find a gun he is okay with. But then he goes down this road and says that
00:02:56.520 the AR in AR-15 stands for assault rifle. He said before they changed it to Armalite rifle. Well,
00:03:04.140 it's always meant Armalite rifle after the original design of the firearm. And more importantly,
00:03:09.460 the AR does not stand for assault rifle because the AR-15 is not an assault rifle. And that's why
00:03:16.480 it is restricted and not prohibited in Canada right now. Now, if the Liberals are hellbent on
00:03:22.720 disarming Canadians and targeting law-abiding gun owners, at least be honest about their agenda. 0.64
00:03:28.140 They simply don't like guns. Now, I think that's an objectionable position, but at least it would be
00:03:34.320 more intellectually honest than what they're doing now, which is trying to muddle what it is that is
00:03:39.600 actually legal in Canada. By their own definition, they're advocating for things that are already
00:03:44.880 banned. So mission accomplished. For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.