Apologies,
all. I'm using this post to try and sort out something I don't
understand. It's kind of a stream-of-consciousness thing that will
hopefully yield an answer. So bear with me as I write myself to
clarity!
On
the night of April 18th, a domestic dispute in a small town in Nova
Scotia spiraled wildly out of control when a man attempted to kill
his longtime girlfriend. She escaped, but the gunman killed two other
people on the property.
Afterwards,
he roamed through the region in a car made to approximate the appearance of a police cruiser. He used it to pull over motorists at
random and execute them.
After
a collision disabled the faux police car, he stole another vehicle and continued his rampage. By the time the gunman was
fatally shot by police he had murdered twenty-two people and set
fire to numerous cars and buildings.
Now,
this is where I get confused. Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of
Canada, announced Friday that effective immediately, it is unlawful
to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons
in Canada.
I
mean, how can he just do that? Isn't he afraid of blow-back
from Canada's law-abiding gun-owners? Isn't he worried about being
castigated by those members of Canada's parliament whose campaigns
are financed by the gun lobby?
And
what of the NRA? When are those sorry-ass paranoids going to insert
themselves into the conversation and howl until Trudeau reverses his
order?
Wait.
The NRA doesn't exist in Canada.
Holy
crap, Batman!
So
that means when a gun with no reason for existing beyond the confines of a
battlefield does, and is used for the wholesale murder of innocent
citizens, people who value other people's lives can simply outlaw
that weapon for the betterment of society at large!
This
as opposed to struggling with a noxious and corrupt trade association
masquerading as a gun safety group.
How
radical.
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