Canada doesn’t have a version of the Second Amendment in their constitution. That’s a shame, because it’s been cited as a reason why they can pass invasive gun control laws. Officials have outright said as much.
But Canadian gun owners are still putting up a fight, and they’re taking that fight to their own supreme court, which will hear their challenge to the Liberals’ gun control agenda.
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments against the Liberal government’s controversial decision to outlaw certain firearms.
The top bench said Thursday it will hear four appeals together challenging the Justin Trudeau-era policy banning hundreds of makes and models, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14.
The government first moved to ban the use, sale and importation of some 1,500 firearms in May 2020 in the wake of the Nova Scotia mass killing, the worst in modern Canadian history. The banned list has since grown to 2,500 varieties, with the government arguing it’s in the name of public safety.
The policy has been generally applauded by gun control advocates, but faces backlash from many gun owners, including hunters and sport shooters, and the Conservative Opposition who all argue the move punishes law-abiding gun owners instead of going after criminals.
This doesn’t seem to be the first time they’ve challenged this ban. Previously, they argued that Trudeau and his cabinet lacked the authority to just issue a ban, which certainly seemed to me to be a reasonable take. If anyone can just issue a ban of a lawful product, what else can they just ban with the stroke of a pen?
Even without the Second Amendment to protect them, this should have been a no-brainer.
The Canadian courts disagreed.
Now, the supreme court up that way is going to get into this.
I won’t pretend to understand Canadian law. I don’t even understand Canadians, in a lot of ways, so I can’t say how this will shake out.
But I will point out that if they had a version of the Second Amendment respecting gun rights, this would be a lot easier.
The right to keep and bear arms isn’t an American right. It’s a human right. At our most basic level, having the means to defend your family and home is an absolute essential, because even if you never need to use it, you can’t guarantee that you won’t. Bad people who want to hurt you and yours exist on ever continent, in every nation, and in every community.
The idea that you can somehow make them docile, peaceful people simply because you take away their guns is idiotic, but it’s worse when you disarm the law-abiding. The bad people still get guns and other weapons, but now no one can resist.
So yeah, it’s a violation of human rights to restrict arms.
However, because that right’s not protected, it’s likely that the Canadian courts won’t respect it as a right. They might declare that Trudeau didn’t have the authority to ban these guns, but they also might not. The fact that anyone feels he had the authority to ban anything is a problem, but it’s also the reason I thank God I was born here in the United States of America.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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