Bad Bob wrote:
https://www.politicususa.com/2022/05/28/canada-just-banned-1500-assault-weapons-as-us-bickers-on-background-checks.html
Typical Bob. Take an announcement from Canada's "Napoleon Lite", don't do any personal research, pull the pin, and toss it into the forum. If you'd looked up anything (since the article you site gives very little real information) you'd see that they are basically banning nearly every kind of semi-automatic long gun. There are 10's of millions of semi-automatic .223 and/or 5.56 rifles (M4, AR-15, Mini-14, etc.) rifles in the US. Let's separate out just this group of long-guns. If the ability to own a gun like that was the actual cause of gun violence in the US, we'd be k*****g off our population at a pace that might even approach what's happening with f******l/heroine/Oxycontin and the rest.
And for all the well-meaning people who drink the MSM Kool-aid and spread the rumor that the US has the biggest problem with mass shootings (defined by the FBI), try looking at actual data (https://menaregood.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/47656_xqxl1xn1oexsmdv.pdf) and do some thinking for yourself for a change. The t***h is not what the nightly news is telling you it is.
And what about the DGU (defensive gun use) statistics? Even Forbes says that over 1 million times a year, a legally owned gun prevents a tragedy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2018/03/20/any-study-of-gun-violence-should-include-how-guns-save-lives/?sh=6f59ddd85edc
[Quote...]Another study estimates there are 1,029,615 DGUs per year “for self-protection or for the protection of property at home, work, or elsewhere” excluding “military service, police work, or work as a security guard,” (within the range of the National Academies’ paper), yielding an estimate of 162,000 cases per year where someone “almost certainly would have been k**led” if they “had not used a gun for protection.”
(In comparison, there were 11,208 homicide deaths by firearm in the US in 2012. There were a total of 33,636 deaths due to “injury by firearms,”
of which the majority were suicides, 21,175.)[...End Quote]
The ONLY reason that a government does what Canada is trying to do is to make it difficult, if not impossible to "support and defend ... against all enemies, foreign
and domestic..."
Thank you, Lord, that I live in a country that has been defended through the years by heroes willing to give the ultimate sacrifice to preserve the freedoms I enjoy. And on this Memorial Day, I promise that those lives will not be forgotten by me or mine.