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    Ein Pilot für Kanadas Waffenrückkauf war ein Fehlschlag. Die Liberalen verpflichten sich trotzdem


    Ein Pilot für Kanadas Waffenrückkauf war ein Fehlschlag. Die Liberalen verpflichten sich trotzdem

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-gun-buyback-pilot-failure-cape-breton/

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    1. icedesparten on

      Of course it was a failure. It was always going to be a failure, we’re just seeing how much of a stunning failure it’s going to be now.

      The program targets, exclusively, licensed firearm owners and exclusively hunting and sporting rifles and shotguns. Firearms no different than what continues to be available on the market, not mechanically or measurably different. Firearms that have been owned for decades without incident.

      Firearm violence, on the other hand, is committed by criminals using smuggled handguns, almost exclusively. They’re completely unaffected by these bans in any way, shape, or form.

      Ultimately, effective gun control comes down to controlling *who* gets the firearm, far more than any miscellaneous controls placed on what firearms are available. That’s why we have a strong and effective licensing system in Canada, and it works incredibly well. We are **not** the States, we don’t have their foundational societal problems, and we aren’t going to become like them if we move back to pre-Trudeau laws.

    2. buckshot95 on

      The buyback hasn’t been a failure at all when you recognize the purpose for it doesn’t have anything to do with guns. It’s a political wedge issue to ensure seats in Montreal. The longer the liberals drag it out the more successful it is for them.

      They don’t care how many guns they get or any drop in crime. They’ll continue to declare it necessary no matter what the evidence shows.

    3. Macqt on

      Because it was never about guns. It’s about appeasing a subset of voters the liberals need to stay in power. If it was about gun violence they’d be funneling all that money into anti-crime efforts, not some asinine plan to take guns away from responsible, legal owners who use them for hunting and target shooting.

    5. Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl on

      Aside from being a pinheaded policy to begin with, it’s going to be unenforceable without an ugly showing, especially for all the formerly NR firearms they intend to confiscate. The original scope in the wake of Portapique was much more manageable, though it still wasn’t a move to resolve what went on there. They expanded the buyback list twice which only made for an even more burdensome buyback and one that only increased resentment by the firearms community. Being constantly told „it’s just going to be this ban, you can have something else“ only for that to be measurably untrue repeatedly made the slippery slope fallacy into a slippery slope reality. With a shadow ban likely coming in March, it will only exacerbate the issues they are experiencing here.

    6. TheManFromTrawno on

      Yet another issue for the Conservative Party of Canada’s coalition of grievances to amplify.

      This is an issue that very few people encounter in their daily lives, and one that most Canadians neither discuss nor prioritize. Its visibility is largely manufactured through social media amplification.

      The tactic is to take a niche grievance, give it disproportionate visibility, then identify or construct an affected group. The next step is to convince others that this group is much larger than it actually is. Or, more effectively, to persuade people that they themselves belong to this group and should share the grievance, often through selective framing or misinformation.

      This approach has been used repeatedly across a range of issues, including:

      * Carbon tax
      * Parental rights
      * Wokeness
      * DEI
      * MGTOW
      * Western alienation
      * Gun buyback

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