Juno News - December 08, 2018Trudeau's gun control is theatrical
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Summary
While he should have been honouring the victims of the L'Ecole Polytechnique shooting, Justin Trudeau decided to take the opportunity on a Montreal radio station to talk about gun control, specifically not ruling out a full ban on handguns and assault weapons.
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While he should have been honouring the victims of the Polytechnique Massacre in Montreal,
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Justin Trudeau decided he would take the opportunity on a Montreal radio station to talk about gun control.
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Specifically, not ruling out a full ban on handguns and assault weapons.
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Though Toronto Star reports, quoting an anonymous government official,
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says that a full handgun ban and buyback is not on the table at this point.
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Trudeau did say that there are some measures to restrict access to assault weapons and handguns.
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One of them is forcing law-abiding, licensed, permitted gun owners to keep their guns in a storage locker at a gun range
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which is keeping them in accordance with very strict and very stringently regulated guidelines.
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And the one element of this, though, that the media refuses to cover
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is that when Trudeau talks about needing to get assault weapons out of people's hands,
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Assault weapons, firearms that have the capacity to shoot fully automatically,
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When Justin Trudeau and the left say assault weapons,
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what they are actually referring to are guns that look scary.
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Guns like the AR-15, which, while it may be a gun that looks like a military rifle,
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it's actually designed solely for civilians and shoots semi-automatic,
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Except this one, because of its appearance, is restricted.
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which can be made to look, again, like a scary black rifle.
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was the gun used by Gamil Garbi in the L'Ecole Polytechnique shooting.
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It's a non-restricted firearm, used routinely for hunting.
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Would not be further restricted under any of the gun bans
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So once again, we have Justin Trudeau taking advantage of the theatrics
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that he's doing something and using the cover of tragedy to do it.
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Let me tell you why this idea of forcing people
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to store their guns at a gun range is a terrible idea.
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Number one, there are people that own restricted firearms
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with collector's permits that don't intend to shoot them at a gun range.
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And all of a sudden, for them to have a collection
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that they aren't allowed to collect wouldn't make sense.
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Number two, the people that have the restricted firearms licenses,
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the RPAL, or Restricted Possession and Acquisition License,
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have gone through very strict and rigorous vetting and screening,
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to make sure they haven't tripped any police radars across the country.
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These people are not the ones that are actually using their gun for harm.
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And it's a lot safer for a licensed and responsible gun owner
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to have their gun stored and secured in their own home
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They won't have the ability to see if someone is breaking into, perhaps, steel.
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you're eliminating the number one thing that gun owners do
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which is constantly supervise their own storage systems.
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Which, by the way, the police can check up on at any point without a warrant.
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So when Justin Trudeau talks about restricting assault weapons,
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he's lying to Canadians to pretend that they aren't already banned.
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When Justin Trudeau talks about restricting access to handguns,
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how strictly regulated and controlled they already are.
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And to use dead Canadians to make those points is despicable.
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For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.