Gun control acts much like a virus. It infects a healthy entity like a country or state, then bursts out to infect other healthy states or nations. Those who support such laws will balk at this comparison, arguing that these measures do good for these areas, unlike a virus.
I reject that notion because, well, gun control doesn’t work and we’ve seen countless examples of just how little it does.
There are often differences in violent crime rates between, say, the United States and many of these other countries, but that’s not because of guns. We know that for a definitive fact. If it were, why would our non-gun homicide rate be higher than these countries’ total homicide rates?
The truth is that we’re culturally very different from these other nations, and those differences matter.
In fact, only one country is even close to the United States culturally, and that’s our neighbors to the north. We’re not carbon copies, of course, but they’re as close as it gets, and we can look at them and see where they went wrong on guns, because that’s where anti-Second Amendment groups want to take us, too.
It starts, as most government overreaches do, with a smile and a slogan. “Common-sense safety.” “Public protection.” “Progress.” In Canada, those words became the velvet glove around an iron hand — the one quietly prying firearms from the palms of citizens who never broke a single law.
There were no midnight raids, no dramatic door-kicks, no revolutionaries storming Parliament Hill. Just paperwork, regulations, and a polite, bureaucratic coup carried out in the Queen’s English.
Ottawa didn’t need to outlaw liberty all at once; it simply redefined it, one cabinet decree and regulatory amendment at a time.
The result? Canada — the friendly neighbor to the north — has turned into the world’s case study for how a liberal, socialist-leaning democracy can confiscate property and call it “policy.”
And if that sounds hyperbolic, look no further than the facts:
- Firearms are not constitutionally protected rights in Canada — they are privileges, granted and revoked at the pleasure of Parliament.
- Land itself isn’t truly “owned” but rather held under the Crown — a centuries-old legal structure that lets government dictate terms of use and forfeiture.
- And with both the property and the means of defense under state control, Canadians have learned a hard truth: when your rights depend on permission slips, they’re not rights at all.
Right now, the only reason anyone owns any so-called assault weapons is because Canada hasn’t been able to work out the buyback system to force people to hand them over. They’ve locked down handguns as well, which are a key tool for self-defense.
The Canadian government wasn’t always this bad on guns. They weren’t the United States, necessarily, but they also didn’t have a restriction on short-barreled rifles, which means friends of mine had AR-15s with 14-inch barrels that didn’t require special paperwork.
And the kick in the butt is that much of this didn’t start because of the Nova Scotia shooting, as many claim. It started because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got caught in a “brown face” scandal and pulled Ralph Northam’s trick, and announced he was going to focus on gun control, shutting down media criticism of him. That’s it.
Now, Canadians might still be able to own some hunting rifles and shotguns, but any illusion that they have a right to keep and bear arms is gone forever.
We do have the Second Amendment, which protects us, but there are those who want to see that repealed simply because it prevents them from doing what they want. They claim they don’t want to go that far, but there’s no reason to believe them. Too many of them have said as much at different times for me to take them at their word.
They want this. They’ll take this if given half a chance.
Those who say they don’t want this and mean it only mean it for right now. The moment things shift, their “thinking” will shift, and they’ll suddenly want to ban everything.
Canada is a warning. It’s a clear signal of what will happen here if the anti-Second Amendment crowd gets their way.
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