Canada

I am really fucking tired of this argument. Gun control in Canada has was never about public safety but was always about fear of people actually challenging the government. You know why in the recent years passing laws still using Polytechnique as the reason despite more recent (and deadlier) mass shootings? Because it was never about that.

In the 19th century and early 20th century gun laws in Canada were fuelled entirely by anti-Irish and anti-immigrant racism in general. In the 1970s the first real long-gun control was spurred by Quebec independence movements and in the 90s it was neither Polytechnique nor the Concordia shootings that spurred the modern gun license scheme. It was the Oka Crisis that had actual large numbers of armed First Nations forcing the government to negotiate instead of bulldozing over their land.

As for having enough gun rights for everything we need? Have you been living under a rock? Since 2020 the gun bans in Canada have gutted almost all shooting sports. Handguns cannot be obtained anymore, 3-gun is effectively dead, and they've banned thousands upon thousands of models of guns that were formerly non-restricted and uncontroversial, and now they stated they're going after shotguns and they're putting hinting at putting any shotgun with any kind of magazine on a to-ban list. They've also banned so many semi-automatic rifles that there are very, very few models that are legal, and I guarantee you, they will likely be mentioned soon.

They stated that any gun with a detachable magazine is not off the table for a ban. Do you understand that basically every single bolt-action rifle made after WW2 has a detachable magazine? It isn't a war on gun crime. It is a war on shooting sports. Canada now, you might find hard to believe, likely has fewer legal gun models than the UK.

In the UK their licenses are harder to get, but if you get them, there are no magazine limitations, manually operated AR-15 are legal, and there are no illegal semi-auto rimfire rifles or magazine restrictions on them. In Canada they effectively are going to ban almost all semi-auto rifles and they're going after many bolt-action rifles.

On top of that, the laws in Canada have never been proven to be effective. They're also extremely expensive and have never delivered on their promises of gun confiscation despite the massive claim that it has.

Tell you don't understand either guns or gun laws in Canada without telling me you don't know that.