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    Waffenkontrolle ist in Kanada beliebt. Warum stößt ein großes Rückkaufprogramm auf Kritik?


    Waffenkontrolle ist in Kanada beliebt. Warum stößt ein großes Rückkaufprogramm auf Kritik?

    https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/americas/canada-shooting-gun-buyback-criticism-latam-intl

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    1. icedesparten on

      10/13 provinces and territories country oppose these bans and buyback, to varying degrees. The Public Safety Minister was caught on hot mic stating that the federal government knew the program was a waste buy felt it bought votes in Quebec (the only province to proactively agree to the program).

      This would be a hilarious joke, if it wasn’t such a failure of the Canadian federal government.

      I still haven’t seen anything approaching a logical explanation as to why this program should be supported or pushed.

      * Targets licensed firearms owner, despite criminals making up the overwhelming number of perpetrators of gun violence;
      * Targets rifles and shotguns, despite smuggled handguns being the overwhelming number of firearms used to commit violence;
      * Suicide won’t be affected, as it (at best) only removes a portion of someone’s collection;
      * Theft won’t be reduced, as the entire point of the buyback is that they confiscated firearms can be replaced by the affected owners;
      * Can’t prevent domestic violence, despite claims, as the affected individuals will retain their firearms licenses and unaffected firearms;
      * The cost is only going to increase, currently it’s sitting at \~$750 million, for comparison, the LGR was to cost $2 million but ended up costing $2 **b**illion, 1000x over the original estimate;
      * It fails to adequately compensate those affected, as they’re either getting [underpaid](https://firearmrights.ca/he-tried-the-pilot-program-and-got-robbed/) with no recourse available, or not getting paid at all;
      * Scapegoats law abiding and licensed firearms owners so that the government can make false claims they’re addressing firearm violence; and
      * It’s broken any trust and goodwill that firearms owners previously had for the government.

    2. UnluckyRandomGuy on

      Because the buyback is not evidence based and doesn’t fix the problem of gun crime in Canada which is overwhelmingly being done with illegal guns being smuggled over the border from the states. Even in this most recent tragedy the guns were not obtained legally from the little evidence we have of them so far.

      There is also the issue of most Canadians not actually understanding what goes into purchasing and owning a gun in Canada. We have some of the most strict gun laws in the entire world and yet as stated above incredibly little gun violence being committed with legal guns or by legal gun owners.

      You’ll find very few Canadians who are vehemently against actual smart guns laws, but this buy back program is not one of those. It is a liberal policy that ignores experts and evidence in favour of emotion and feels, trying to play off tragedies like Poly, Nova Scotia, and now Tumbler Ridge to push through unpopular laws by pulling at suburban heartstrings.

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