Canada – -(Ammoland.com)- First, Mark Holland stood in the House of Commons and inferred Canadian firearm owners are thugs:
“What thugs do is to make sure they are able to keep weapons in their car and not have to answer any questions. That is what they are going to do. They are going to put the weapons in the car and drive wherever they go. They know that if they are pulled over by a police officer, all they have to do is list one of a million different places to explain where they are going.”
Mark Holland probably didn’t mean to call all licensed, law-abiding firearm owners thugs, but those are the only people who can explain their way out of the police situation Holland described.
Then Liberal Member of Parliament Pam Damoff stood in the House of Commons:
“I keep hearing this term law abiding gun owners. And I appreciate that the majority of people who own firearms are law-abiding gun owners. Marc Lepine, who killed fourteen women a Polytechnique, also had a firearms license. Alexandre Bissonnette, who killed six men in the mosque in Quebec City, had a valid firearms license. So, you know, we talk about law-abiding firearms owners. A lot of times they are until they’re not.”
Not to be outdone by his fellow parliamentarians, Bob Nault, M.P. (Kenora) stood in the House of Commons and launched his attack:
“I think one of our major concerns in today’s gun scenario, and we see it in the U.S. and in Canada, is that there are a lot of mental issues with people who have firearms.”
If Mr. Nault’s claim was true, the RCMP would revoke hundreds of thousands of firearm licences every year. They don’t.
We understand political rhetoric but when elected Members of Parliament, speaking on behalf of the government, misunderstand our community as gravely as these three individuals do, it is no longer political rhetoric but political character assassination.
Canada’s responsible firearm owners are the second largest group of sporting enthusiasts in the country, bested only by sport-fishing. Golf, the next most popular sport, has 1.5 million participants and hockey trails with 1.2 million.
These Liberal Party stooges view 2.1 million federally licensed, RCMP-vetted firearm owners as mentally deranged –– violent criminals ready to snap at the slightest provocation.
Why?
The visceral hatred these statements reveal signals a much deeper issue. Replace the words “gun owner” with any other identifiable group and the outrage would be instantaneous, monumental and catastrophic to the career of the person uttering such words.
Imagine if Mark Holland said: “What Metis’ do is to make sure they are able to keep weapons in their car and not have to answer any questions.”
Or if Pam Damoff said: “Women are law-abiding until they are not.”
Or if Bob Nault said: “…that there are a lot of mental issues with Quebeckers who own sports cars.”
They would be forced to resign in disgrace amid a parliamentary and media furor.
So why is denigrating the character of 2.1 million Canadians, men, and women who have not broken any laws, who are federally licensed to own firearms, and who are vetted daily by the RCMP, deemed to be acceptable by our government?
Sources:
- https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/house/sitting-307/hansard#Int-10181133
- https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/house/sitting-316/hansard#Int-10225883
- https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20180618/-1/29616
- https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/pc-ch/CH24-1-2012-eng.pdf
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“and we see it in the U.S. and in Canada, is that there are a lot of mental issues with people who have firearms.”
…and we see it in the U.S. and in Canada, is that there are a lot of mental issues with people who hold public offices
There, I corrected that statement………
It strikes me that courtesies extended should be courtesies returned. Perhaps I’ve missed them, but I had not noticed American office holders criticizing Canadians respecting firearms laws enacted by their chosen representatives, ridiculous though they might be to American eyes.
Seems to me that Pam Damoff and Bob Nault are the ones having mental issues. Just like in the US, if you can’t get the criminals to pay attention to the laws, you pass laws that make criminals out of everyone else under the disguise of common sense gun laws or public safety . Once again you try the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. Nice to know the liberals in Canada are just as dimwitted as they are in the United States!!!!!!!!!!!
I have felt for many years that canooks are different than us and as long as they leave us alone that is fine. They try to stay prim and proper just like their Queen would like. Many years ago they raised the price of cigarettes to unaffordable levels to discourage smoking because it is a health hazard. Now they approve of recreational pot but I would think that has some smoking dangers, also.
Very typical of liberals from north of the border. We have them here in the states also—their day is coming to an end! Socialism simply does not work, it has failed everywhere it has been tried. Freedom and the good guys will win every time!
Can you imagine how many Canadian homes would be warmed every winter if they could capture these neo-socialists’ speech and store it until winter???
What a bunch of wasted hot air….