Re: as an anarchist, i'm pretty disappointed with guns nuts ...

On Aug 18, 2026 at 2:27:27 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/18/2026 12:38 PM, dart200 wrote:
>> On 8/18/26 9:28 AM, Wilson wrote:
>>> On 8/17/2026 4:40 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>> On Aug 17, 2026 at 4:24:52 PM EDT, "Wilson" <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/17/2026 3:34 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>> On Aug 17, 2026 at 3:26:05 PM EDT, "Wilson"
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 8/17/2026 3:02 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Aug 17, 2026 at 2:45:52 PM EDT, "Noah Sombrero"
>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Guns are tools for killing people.  So best idea:  don't have a gun
>>>>>>>>> unless you intend to kill people.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> assault guns and hand guns have only one use - killing other people
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Rifles, long and shot guns are for hunting and are for killing
>>>>>>>> animals
>>>>>>>> (preferably for food) and in rare occasions, for animal defence.
>>>>>>>> If you aren't
>>>>>>>> using them, or have them for these reasons, you don't need them.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> simple, right.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The neat thing about human rights that are encoded in written
>>>>>>> constitution that includes the right own and bear arms, is that it
>>>>>>> prevents other people telling you that you can't own a gun. And in
>>>>>>> those
>>>>>>> places where you do have the right to use force in self-defense to
>>>>>>> protect your life, people can do that.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In other words, you don't get a say in the matter.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Exactly. We didn't want that right in our Constitution. So we do
>>>>>> get a say. No
>>>>>> really, I just want to stop the smuggling of guns from the U.S.
>>>>>> across the
>>>>>> border into Canada. We have enough problems to deal with:).
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the US the purchaser needs to provide ID when buying a gun, and it's
>>>>> illegal to buy a gun if it's intended for another person. And it's
>>>>> illegal in both the US and Canada to smuggle them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So it's likely most of the guns that are used in crimes in Canada were
>>>>> stolen from legal owners.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It's so easy to smuggle something small like a gun. If it's going to be
>>>>> stopped it will probably have to be by putting your gun criminals away
>>>>> for a long time.
>>>> 
>>>> Illegal handguns in Canada primarily originate from the United
>>>> States, where
>>>> they are heavily trafficked across the border to feed a lucrative black
>>>> market. While overall crime gun data from the RCMP includes many
>>>> domestically
>>>> sourced long guns used in rural areas, tracing data specifically for
>>>> handguns
>>>> recovered in major urban centers—like Toronto and across Ontario—
>>>> shows that
>>>> 85% to 90% are smuggled from the U.S..
>>>> -Bbc
>>>> 
>>>> They are hidden in gas tanks, the trunks of cars, in luggage, or on
>>>> someone's
>>>> body. In one remarkable instance involving Montrealer Alexis Vlachos,
>>>> firearms
>>>> were smuggled through a public library that straddles the border with
>>>> the U.S.
>>>> 
>>>>      Last year, The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) was granted
>>>> an extra
>>>> $51.5 million in funding over five years to enhance screening,
>>>> detection and
>>>> training around firearms smuggling. The RCMP were also given $34.5
>>>> million
>>>> over five years for the new Integrated Criminal Firearms Initiative
>>>> to enhance
>>>> intelligence gathering, technology and investigations.
>>>> 
>>>> Superintendent Jason Crowley with the Windsor police department says the
>>>> appeal of smuggling guns is pure economics.
>>>> 
>>>> "You will see a gun, a firearm purchased in the States for
>>>> potentially $200 to
>>>> $300, and they'll go on the streets [in Canada] for $3,000."
>>>> 
>>>> Crowley calls it a "pipeline" — guns smuggled across the border from
>>>> Detroit
>>>> into Windsor, and then to cities across the country. He says the
>>>> influx of
>>>> firearms has contributed to an increase in violent gun crime in Canada.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/national-gun-trafficking-straw-buying-
>>>> smuggling-firearms-1.5126228
>>> 
>>> So what is Canada going to do to stop it?
>> 
>> so it's canada's job to stop americunts from illegally smuggling in
>> weapons?
>> 
> 
> Who put in most of the effort in trying to stop the bootleggers who were
> bringing booze over the border from Canada to the US during prohibition?
> (Hint, it was the US).
> 
> Personally I think it'd be easier and better to prosecute the people
> using the guns in a crime.

We do that as well.

>  But they've decided they would sooner
> criminalize their law abiding citizens who want to own a gun. smh

Excuse me. It's the overwhelming Canadian consensus that we don't want hand
guns or automatic weapons sold and available in our country!!!!!