PJ The Belt - August 12, 2025


Alberta ARMING ITSELF Ahead of 2026 INDEPENDENCE VOTE!

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Length

8 minutes

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151.03

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1,353

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4

People

Also mentioned:
Dave Collins

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

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Summary

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In the wake of the Aurora school shooting, Canada has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the entire world. Yet gun ownership is on the rise, especially among young men, and so are the sales of assault style weapons.

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00:00:00.000 we just want to be left alone and do what we do out here and without too much regulation but
00:00:05.920 you know we've always been a pretty conservative area and it's never been an issue out here so
00:00:10.400 there shouldn't be any gun policies to take everybody's guns away because it makes no sense
00:00:16.000 in our part of the world none whatsoever so if someone proposed a stricter policy
00:00:20.960 would that make you ignore that person probably
00:00:25.040 you know you'd think ottawa's endless anti-gun crusade would have scared albertans into
00:00:33.600 handing over their legally obtained firearms but nope in fact the exact opposite is happening
00:00:40.800 firearms ownership is only increasing especially among young men gun permit applications are up and
00:00:47.360 so are the sales of rifles shotguns and other weapons pretty much everything that fires a
00:00:53.280 bullet is selling like hotcakes and alberta's not just shrugging off the so-called gun buyback 0.98
00:00:59.600 program either they're building a wall against it the provincial governments made it very clear
00:01:06.160 confiscation is not happening here they're protecting property rights and standing with
00:01:11.920 low-abiding gun owners things are about to get very interesting in alberta as we approach the
00:01:17.280 independence vote in 2026. let's dive in very quickly though if you enjoy these videos please do me a
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00:01:29.600 you and back to the video this 13 year old squeezes the trigger of a glock 19x it's a restricted weapon
00:01:37.600 that can only be used here at a gun range you're more powerful with this you feel protected also
00:01:43.600 jaden gagnon is part of a growing cohort of teenagers applying for gun licenses this year the number of
00:01:49.360 applications went up 11 percent among people under 19. five years ago the liberals banned more than 2 000
00:01:56.960 models of firearms including handguns and many semi-automatic style weapons offering to buy them back
00:02:03.520 a lot of young canadians getting involved in this for various reasons when people start talking about gun
00:02:09.360 owner rights i get very concerned about the ideological flow of ideas from the u.s we've got our camera
00:02:19.440 set up behind this bulletproof glass sociologists blame a renewed interest in guns in part on the
00:02:25.120 influence of social media the kind of masculine ideology that is being promoted on the radical right
00:02:30.480 side of the political spectrum it is very much a heroic masculinity a nostalgic masculinity well i guess
00:02:38.480 god forbid young men actually embrace their masculinity and learn responsible self-defense 0.75
00:02:44.720 leave it to the woke left to lose their minds over people embracing traditional values
00:02:50.720 the government paid media and anti-gun talking heads are crying foul over canadians legally
00:02:56.000 owning firearms even though this country already has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the
00:03:01.040 entire world and here's the kicker statistics keep showing that most gun crimes come from
00:03:07.440 illegally obtained firearms not from licensed gun owners but that doesn't fit the narrative now does it
00:03:15.200 nope much easier to demonize the law abiding than deal with actual criminals
00:03:25.520 meet decades-long gun enthusiast dave collins
00:03:28.960 my first paycheck i bought a shotgun a 12 gauge remington a former competitive shooter who now likes to hunt
00:03:37.280 and even makes his own ammunition this one's my main goose hunting gun i bought it about oh 2014 i guess it would be
00:03:47.280 and it's done a lot of work over the years part of why i moved here is because this is a really good bird hunting area
00:03:54.720 okay collins is no fan of federal firearms policies and he thinks it will factor into the upcoming
00:04:05.600 election citing the unique realities of living in rural alberta until you get around and start
00:04:12.960 circulating around the countryside you really don't develop a picture of that stuff you know here's the
00:04:18.720 rest of the world folks hunting sport shooting and gun collecting are part of lots of people's lives
00:04:29.040 the riding is over 52 000 square kilometers with more than 80 000 people living in small cities towns
00:04:36.400 and villages gun policy is on voters minds because in this pocket of alberta gun culture runs deep we just
00:04:44.720 want to be left alone and do what we do out here and without too much regulation but you know we've
00:04:50.800 always been a pretty conservative area and it's never been an issue out here so all righty
00:05:01.520 it's just a way of life around here vendors come together to come out and sell their stuff to each
00:05:05.760 other and the area that comes out we've got guys coming from manitoba bc
00:05:10.640 yukon sometimes it's not like they're out to harm anybody or sell to someone who's bad but it's just 0.84
00:05:18.640 it's a business for them a 2023 law cemented a freeze on handgun sales ottawa also banned more than 1500
00:05:26.720 models of assault style guns in 2020 and expanded the list to over 2 000 models last year an rcmp database
00:05:35.360 called the firearms reference table is continually being updated adding more models to the restricted
00:05:41.440 list the feds have promised a buyback program for people who have guns that were once legal
00:05:46.800 but now are not that program has been delayed for years there are some who want to see less
00:05:52.400 government control over gun rules there shouldn't be any gun policies to take everybody's guns away
00:05:58.800 because it makes no sense in our part of the world none whatsoever so if someone proposed a stricter policy
00:06:05.520 would that make you ignore that person probably albertans are not buying the government propaganda
00:06:13.520 the same old tired line of guns are bad citizens can't be trusted so let's just let the government have
00:06:20.160 all the guns because yeah that's never gone wrong in history right the irony is almost too rich 0.90
00:06:27.120 these laws are oftentimes drafted by people who've never touched a damn firearm in their entire lives 0.64
00:06:33.760 but they're perfectly happy being guarded by men with guns while they sit in an air-conditioned office
00:06:39.840 but you me the average joe no we don't get that privilege in all of this i'm glad to see that albertans
00:06:48.480 are the least likely to fall for the bs 81 of people in this province distrust the federal government
00:06:56.000 when it comes to guns and confiscation and i hope that number hits 100 soon this wasn't really a
00:07:02.400 survey it was a 100 000 taxpayer-funded psyop to try to figure out why law-abiding citizens won't
00:07:08.480 voluntarily surrender their firearms for the liberals latest confiscation program and guess what ecos found
00:07:16.080 gun owners don't trust the government big surprise there more than two-thirds of respondents say they
00:07:23.120 do not trust the feds to make good decisions about firearms in the public interest in alberta to my
00:07:29.200 great sense of pride that distrust jumps to 81 let me repeat that again 81 that's not just skepticism
00:07:39.520 that's open rejection of federal government overreach and it gets worse for the liberals only 34 of
00:07:46.160 respondents nationally said they support the so-called assault weapons buyback in alberta a dismal 21
00:07:53.840 that's four out of five albertans telling the feds to get stuff 340 000 licensed gun owners in the 0.99
00:08:00.160 province of alberta justin trudeau wakes up one night whether it's a wet dream or a nightmare we're
00:08:05.040 not sure what he just decides oh my goodness albertans can't have guns anymore i'm gonna take 0.99
00:08:10.400 them all away and next thing you know stupid lists are being you know are being posted telling us what 0.97
00:08:16.560 property we're no longer allowed to own and this is just by fiat out of ottawa not legislation just 0.97
00:08:23.520 ordering council stroke of a pen things that you thought you owned you no longer owned because
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