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No need to cut them off, just impose an equal export tax on energy and minerals if Trump doesn't apply tariffs to them as well. That way we could get the Americans to help pay down our deficit. That will drive gas prices through the roof in parts of the US and could make some of their heavy oil refineries unprofitable. That should be a last resort but we shouldn't be afraid to do it if pushed far enough.

Ya but you can't eat your dinner with a firearm. I don't support the current government's actions but comparing a firearm to a dinner knife is equally ridiculous. Banning all knives would affect your life far more than than not having a gun.

If Canadian provinces were states, Trump would have lost.

So how did a former KGB colonel and politician who's salary is $140K a year become one of the worlds richest people and how did you become one of his useful fools? https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/putins-net-worth-rivals-elon-musk-cobweb-bank-accounts-assets-hides-full-value-expert-says

Knives are a tool used for a multitude of things and we do ban some types of knives, but you can put a razor edge on a dinner knife if you have a mind too.

Trump signed the agreement with the Taliban in February of 2020, it specified US troop reductions and full withdrawal within 14 months. He will abandon Ukraine as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Taliban_deal

As a matter of interest, what happens when something you do care about gets banned and other people say they don't care?

And yet most of our firearms crimes are committed in urban centres.

So it is out of the question.

Canadians and Americans certainly look at guns differently. The great majority of Canadians have no emotional attachment to guns, don't own and have no desire to own them. Gun ownership is a privilege like a driver's licence, not a right and it is generally thought that the only people needing them are hunters and farmers and neither of them need semi auto weapons or handguns. The idea of using them for self defence is foreign to them and indeed, if they are stored legally would be useless. No home invader is going to wait until you remove your gun from a safe and load it. Carrying one is out of the question, even our police officers aren't armed when they are off duty. Does our government use bans as a cynical wedge issue? Absolutely. The first ban and buy back was announced right after the Portapique massacre in spite of the fact the shooter's guns had been obtained illegally in the US from a seller who had bought them legally. The ban would have done nothing to stop that shooting. The newest ban was announced on the 35th anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting even though that gun had been banned previously. Has the government been incompetent when it comes to the bans and buy back? You bet. As you point out, years have passed and millions spent without a single gun being bought back. After the Christchurch massacre, the New Zealand government announced a ban and buy back within weeks and completed it in six months. Do stiffer gun laws work? Yes, to a point but this government has gone overboard. Our gun laws were already a good compromise between ownership and public safety before the Portapique shootings. Do bans work? Depends. They have worked in Australia and New Zealand. In fact the Christchurch shooter was an Australian who decided to target New Zealand because the gun he used was readily available in NZ but banned in Australia. However, both of them are island nations which have far better control over what enters the country. They will be much less effective in a country that shares a 5000 mile undefended border with the gun happiest country on the planet, because these guns will always be available to those who really want them. Barring some sort of miracle, the Trudeau government will be gone by next fall and it will be interesting to see what happens to the bans and buy back with a new government.

We certainly have different views although I don’t think our governments actions are dealing with the biggest problem, guns smuggled in from the US by gangs. I do shake my head at our neighbours down south who think the solution to too many guns is even more guns. Didn’t someone say that doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is a definition of insanity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Instant_Criminal_Background_Check_System https://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/gun-background-check-nics-guide/

You haven't backed up any of your points, I have backed up all of mine, BTW, my math is just fine. Get back to me when you have something more than you are just parroting from whoever you listen too.

Yup, just bullshit.

Still no sources, just bullshit.

The link claims 3 million applications were rejected since 1998. Currently 1.4 million guns a month are sold in the US. https://www.safehome.org/data/firearms-guns-statistics/ So far I have provided sources to back up my claims, you have provided SFA to back up yours.

It supports everything I said, I damn near quoted from it. Unlike you I actually do some research before I mouth off.

https://usafacts.org/articles/firearm-background-checks-explained/ In the 26 years 3 million applications have been refused. Gun sails in the US are 1.4 million a month so that's just over 2 months worth off sales or a 0.65% rejection rate.

You don't even know your own laws.

They are a complete joke. All they are is a check of a database that gets its information from individual states. They only apply to federally licensed dealers and if they don't get a result in 3 business days they get to sell the gun anyway. There is no check of private sales. They are slightly better than useless.

No such thing as martial law in Canada.

Actually you are the ones who are f*cked. We don't feel we need to be armed to protect ourselves or turn our schools into armed fortresses. That said, a lot of this is window dressing because the great majority of firearms used in crimes in Canada are illegaly smuggled into the country by you lot and that is why Mexico is suing your gun manufacturers.

Interestingly enough, I agree with Nationalist.

Ya, he's an Ahole.