Juno News - December 10, 2019Throne speech confirms Liberals coming after your guns
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It's official. Justin Trudeau is coming for your guns. This was made known in the Speech from the Throne, the speech delivered by the Governor General, her excellency Julie Payette on behalf of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's newly elected government. As she laid out what the mandates and priorities will be for this government, it was made clear they're going after what they determine are so-called assault rifles and also making it so municipalities can restrict otherwise lawful ownership of handguns.
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it's official justin trudeau is coming for your guns this was made known in the speech from the
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throne the speech delivered by the governor general her excellency julie payette on behalf
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of justin trudeau's newly re-elected government as she laid out what the mandates and priorities
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will be for this government it was made clear they're going after what they determine are
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so-called assault rifles and also making it so municipalities can restrict otherwise lawful
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ownership of handguns here's the section from the speech in question the government will crack down
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on gun crime banning military-style assault rifles and taking steps to introduce a buyback program
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municipalities and communities that want to ban handguns will be able to do so and the government
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will invest to help cities fight gang-related violence it didn't take up a huge part of the
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speech but still it reinforces and reiterates a promise made in the campaign the government is
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still planning to plow ahead even tying this to the anniversary the 30th anniversary of the horrific
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tragedy and massacre at l'école polytechnique in montreal the problem with this policy no matter
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how many times the government lays it out and no matter how many times the liberals talk about the
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need to further gun control in canada is that they are still just plain wrong when they identify
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legally owned guns as being at all connected to the problem military-style assault rifles aren't a
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thing in canada the ar-15 which they're actually referring to the one that typically is the subject of
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their ire is not an assault rifle in fact it's merely an aesthetic change between that restricted gun and
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several non-restricted guns that you can have in canada literally guns that can do the exact same
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thing that are non-restricted because they look less scary than the big black ar-15 the problem with
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this however is that the government's rhetoric is winning people over people that don't know about
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guns people that haven't been shooters themselves people that don't have their possession and acquisition
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licenses will go along with this and think just because justin trudeau said so there is this
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assault weapons problem this epidemic in canada of people being gunned down by legally owned firearms
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we know for a fact that the vast majority of gun crime is gang related taking place in urban centers
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we also know the government is still not tracking the origins of guns used in crime to determine where
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they're coming from many studies that have been done have been a patchwork of responses but more
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importantly they're telling us that these are guns that are smuggled across the border not lawfully
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owned guns that end up getting used in crime so this is something that needs to be pushed back against
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the government that has vowed itself to be lining its policies with evidence is ignoring the evidence
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because it's convenient when it comes to firearms but the problem is the policies that are being
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proposed are vague at best take for example this section of the throne speech saying municipalities
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will be able to ban handguns if they want now some municipalities like the city of toronto for
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example have called on the federal government to implement handgun bans the government has said no
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to that but is now saying that municipalities will be able to put those forward on their own
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now what does this mean does it just mean that cities like toronto will be able to ban gun stores
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doesn't mean they'll be able to ban gun ranges or doesn't mean they'll be able to ban residents who
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live in those cities from having registered handguns we don't know but if they choose the latter it would
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be absolutely absurd no different than a city like say calgary deciding it will not allow people to live
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in calgary who have marijuana even though it's federally legal you can't start putting these provincial or
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municipal boundaries around things that are supposed to be enshrined federally in law or even if it is
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just referring to banning gun stores and banning gun ranges we're still talking about a backdoor way
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that we could have gun control in canada that isn't even subject to the same approval that federal gun
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control is because municipalities are able to just shove these things through and the federal government
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is able to say well we didn't do it the city of toronto did or the city of whatever did so right
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now gun owners are facing a monumental threat to their rights rights that are proving themselves
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to not cause any harm or hardship to anyone in the country but that is an easier scapegoat if you're
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justin trudeau to go after the people that are causing no harm than to deal with the real trouble of gun
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crime this is something that true north is unequivocal on we are standing up for law-abiding gun owners
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i'm standing up for law-abiding gun owners being one myself one who owns an ar-15 and several handguns
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which are now in jeopardy and you may think this is about need it's not it's about rights and if you
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allow the government to scapegoat people that are causing no trouble you're giving it license to do
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it in any number of other policy areas as well true north is standing up for you if you're a gun owner
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or you as a canadian who loves freedom but we can't do this alone if you can chip in a few dollars
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to our efforts by joining my heritage club it will go a long way to letting us be a voice for
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these people who aren't represented by the mainstream media or the government for true north i'm andrew lutton