Juno News - September 22, 2019


Liberal "assault weapons" ban is based on a myth


Episode Stats

Length

4 minutes

Words per Minute

182.33463

Word Count

781

Sentence Count

42


Summary

The Liberal Party of Canada is coming for your guns, and if they succeed, it won t do a thing about gun crime in Canada. The Liberal Party on the campaign trail announced its gun control platform, something it will implement if re-elected, and according to the Liberals, they are going after so-called assault weapons.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Liberal Party of Canada is coming for your guns, and if they succeed, it won't do a thing about gun crime in Canada.
00:00:09.000 The Liberal Party on the campaign trail announced its gun control platform, something it will implement if re-elected.
00:00:16.000 And according to the Liberals, they are going after so-called assault weapons.
00:00:21.000 Justin Trudeau, when he made his announcement, gave, by way of example, the AR-15.
00:00:26.000 A gun that I've covered in the past, that I've talked about in the past, a firearm that I own in my collection right now.
00:00:32.000 And Justin Trudeau says those are gone, banned if the Liberals are re-elected, because they are, again, assault weapons.
00:00:40.000 Now, the new policy from the Liberals, who have been in power for four years, by the way,
00:00:45.000 and if they believed that they had all these solutions to gun crime, they could have implemented them by now.
00:00:50.000 The Liberals have decided that they're also going to give municipalities the authorization to put in municipal handgun bans.
00:00:57.000 Now, this is something that Toronto, as one example, has been trying to do.
00:01:01.000 What a municipal ban would look like, we don't know.
00:01:04.000 Would it just be banning retailers of firearms, or would it actually be banning anyone who lives in that municipality from having a registered handgun?
00:01:12.000 There are a lot of questions about this, such as what happens to people that don't surrender their so-called assault weapons under this Liberal plan.
00:01:20.000 The Liberals, according to a CBC story, realized that this will cost up to $600 million to buy back the restricted rifles in circulation that they're really trying to target with this.
00:01:32.000 And again, the people that are going to say, alright, government, here's my gun, are not the ones that are using them for anything illegal.
00:01:39.000 Because the illegal guns are, by and large, unregistered, illegally owned firearms, not the ones the government knows about.
00:01:46.000 And the only ones that the government can do anything about are the ones that it knows about, that are registered.
00:01:51.000 But the reason this is so important to talk about is because Canadians are being told that this is a public safety measure,
00:01:58.000 that this is something that will make the streets more safe.
00:02:01.000 Because after all, who needs a restricted rifle? Who needs an AR-15?
00:02:06.000 This is the rhetoric the Liberals are using right now.
00:02:09.000 And they even said that farmers and hunters aren't using AR-15s.
00:02:13.000 Well, no, but the only reason they aren't in Canada is because it is illegal to use,
00:02:18.000 not because the gun is not entirely suitable for those purposes.
00:02:21.000 And indeed, AR-15s are used for that purpose elsewhere in the world.
00:02:26.000 But the problem with this whole thing that the Liberals are trying to do here
00:02:30.000 is that it's based on a lie, that assault weapons are the weapons that Canadians own,
00:02:36.000 that firearms owned, legally used for target shooting, used for other shooting sports, are in any way assault weapons.
00:02:42.000 They are not.
00:02:43.000 The AR does not stand for assault rifle, it stands for Armalite rifle.
00:02:47.000 An assault rifle requires the capacity to shoot fully automatic.
00:02:51.000 Semi-automatics, as the name tells you, are not fully automatic.
00:02:56.000 And what's more, there are firearms that are non-restricted that will not be covered under this ban, presumably,
00:03:03.000 that do the exact same thing as the ones the government is targeting.
00:03:07.000 The only differences are cosmetic, which means that the Liberal gun control strategy is, in many respects, complete window dressing.
00:03:15.000 Now, I asked a couple of questions of the Liberals about this policy
00:03:19.000 in two separate emails to the Liberals' media relations office.
00:03:22.000 And the first question was how the government or the Liberal Party defines assault rifle or assault weapon.
00:03:29.000 I received no response whatsoever. None.
00:03:32.000 So either the Liberals don't know what the definition is or they don't want to say
00:03:37.000 because they know that it will not be an accurate reflection of what an assault rifle really is.
00:03:43.000 The Liberals are scoring political points off the backs of law-abiding gun owners.
00:03:48.000 And this will not come without a penalty, given the sheer volume of gun owners in Canada, to the tune of 2 million.
00:03:55.000 This is why True North is standing up for firearms owners.
00:03:58.000 I get it. I am one of them.
00:04:00.000 When politicians spread misinformation about us, I take it personally, as I know you do.
00:04:05.000 But we can't do this work without you.
00:04:07.000 If you can chip in a few dollars or a few hundred dollars to our election coverage fund
00:04:11.000 to do the work the mainstream media isn't, head on over to tnc.news.
00:04:15.000 For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.