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    Waffenkontrollgruppe kritisiert Ottawa wegen „schlechter Beteiligung“ am Rückkauf von Schusswaffen

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    2. Reasonable_Hall2346 on

      Have they considered that this program is a total waste of money, it will have negligible, if any, impact on public safety and Canadians see through their nonsense? Its not a communication issue, its a failure from the start. It should have been scrapped long ago.

    3. FarSquare8632 on

      They should be blaming the government for the poor participation in the buy back, partly because it’s not a buy back, it’s bald faced theft of legally purchased merchandise with no compensation for the overwhelming majority of those affected. The anti-gun lobby didn’t build the program, the government did, so they have to be held accountable for these kinds of decisions.

      It’s also including firearms on the OICs that have no business whatsoever being there, and once anyone who actually owns firearms sees the deception and incompetence that went into those lists, it’s really tough to respect the people making the list, or the government forwarding it as legitimate.

    4. Souichi_Tsuji on

      If there’s one thing Canadians love it’s telling other Canadians how to live

    5. Spider-King-270 on

      >the program has failed to counter misinformation and disingenuous provincial manoeuvring.

      It’s not misinformation if the website it’s self tells you that your not going to get paid. Further more calling a province disingenuous for wanting to protect its citizens on what is clearly a failed and misguided political policy isn’t manoeuvring its common sense.

      What is misleading is pretending this buyback is anything other than a failed political exercise. Participation is clearly lagging, costs keep rising, and there’s no evidence it meaningfully targets the sources of gun violence. It’s time Ottawa ends this pointless attack on Canadiens and let owners use their property again.

    6. Woodworking-noob on

      All I want for Christmas is to see Natalie Provosts face when this program gets cancelled.

    7. Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl on

      I agree that the messaging was weak. Weak in the sense that it pushed misinformation about the character of Canada’s gun laws and the nature of the ban. Every gun owner knew what this was really about and no matter how hard the ‚assault style‘ line was plugged, it didn’t make it anymore true. The government misrepresented the entire policy file and then looked to shaft owners to boot. If they budgeted properly and actually guaranteed compensation maybe they would’ve had more of an uptake, and even then, big maybe.

      I find the Poly agitation hilarious though especially considering they pushed for it. Wasn’t it also supposed to voluntary? You’d think they’d be happy either way. The reality is this was a political stunt they needed.

      Edit: Poly sanctimony and contrarianism on the topic also hasn’t helped one bit. They kept trying to contradict what the government’s own publicly available information claimed and then framed all critics as bought and paid for. Real life isn’t early 20-teens social media. Criticism isn’t a sign of the worst evil and facts matter.

    8. Enigmatic_Penguin on

      Seeing Poly upset is my ray of sunshine in all of this.

      They aren’t altruistic advocates for victims – They are zealots.

    9. rastamasta45 on

      Love they all ignore the fact that the website states 4 times that compensation is not guaranteed and that you are to give up your lawfully obtained property under threat of prison for no money. Some people are tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands in the hole and the government simply will rob them.

      The government also wants us to thank them for not putting us in prison.

      They’re a joke and they’re harassing and dividing this country even further.

    10. ghost_n_the_shell on

      So, I will say this:

      If the gun control lobby actually cared about reducing gun violence, they would be advocating for more resources to combat gun smuggling, along with enhanced bail in our court system.

      But they don’t actually care about reducing gun violence.

      They care about the ideology. They don’t *want* law abiding citizens to have firearms because they *don’t like them*.

      I’d have more sympathy for this group if they weren’t going after the lawful Canadian vs the criminals and illegal guns being used.

      We have experts telling us this won’t help.
      We have many major police services refusing to cooperate and participate. We have PROVINCES, that Include Liberal and NDP provinces, who refused to participate.

      This is a vote buy for seats in Quebec.
      This a colossal waste of money.
      This is a government seizing Canadians lawfully owned property – while making no promise of payment.

      This debacle will ensure I never, under any circumstances, vote for the Liberal party in any capacity.

    11. BaseCommanderMittens on

      Aren’t these the same idiots pushing this dumb useless waste of money program?

    13. DogeDoRight on

      The „poor participantion“ is because the program is hot garbage and it doesn’t matter what the government says because people see right through it.

      You can put lipstick on a pig but at the end of the day it’s still a pig.

    14. CanuckleHeadOG on

      >Gun control group PolySeSouvient

      Yeah I knew it was them before even opening the article

    15. Terapr0 on

      Yea, well, the people who own these firearms don’t see themselves as criminals, or any part of the problem with illegal guns in this country, because they aren’t – no wonder it hasn’t been popular.

      You know what would be popular with gun owners? Evidence based programs designed in good faith to stop the flow of illegal guns across the border and through native reservations.

    16. LibertySherpa on

      The other crazy thing about all this, is that there’s not a huge difference between a semi-auto rifle and a bolt action or lever action rifle. Maybe an extra second between shots.

    17. polargus on

      It’s never going to work, almost all provinces either won’t enforce it or are actively working against it ever being enforceable at all (Sask). It’s Trudeau-era ideological government overreach.

    18. dangerwormmy on

      “Sell your guns here! “
      (No guarantee we will give you money)

      Why did no one sign up?

    20. morrissey_kingofmope on

      Is this the same gun control group that has de-facto embedded themselves INTO the government?

      Asking for a friend.

    21. mustard_tiger19 on

      This is an excellent example of the sunk cost fallacy. I mean, this entire ordeal has been an exercise in bad logic.

    23. Nonamanadus on

      Talk about a program that is constantly shooting a dead horse with blanks.

    25. soviet_toster on

      I like the fact that she basically omitted that payment for your property is not guaranteed

    26. discoturkey69 on

      Oof, it’s not even the end of the declaration period and Poly is already throwing the government under the bus! Did not expect this until at least summer.

      When the primary lobby group in favour of the program starts using words like weak and fail, this is huge, this might be the crack that starts the collapse of this program.

      Hopefully this further disincentives Carney from continuing to pretend to support this. He can kick the can down the road by extending the amnesty until the next election season and it can be yet another „elect us so we can do something or other with the bad scary guns, hey check out these pictures!“.

      And this is even more awkward because Nathalie „I am not a gopher“ Provost is seen as part of Poly even if she’s no longer officially affiliated with them. The MP’s friends are saying the government is doing a shit job.

    27. flatwoods76 on

      With Provost in office and speaking specifically to this program, PolySouvient should be barred from lobbying the government.

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