Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Well, let’s break this down.
For one, I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that I’m scared of guns. I’ve gone shooting, I have friends who hunt whom I fully respect, and while I don’t own any guns myself, it’s not a moral choice, I really just have no use for them.
I’m also not sure why you’re interested in my sexual activity.
Two, no law was pushed through. This law already existed and has existed for some time. What happened was that certain firearms were added to the list that already exists. This was done using an order-in-council, which not only is how that works, but is an extremely common tool. This law has had items added multiple times using this process. Adding items to a law (such as adding guns to a pre-existing list of restricted guns) does not require parliamentary approval. So while this is probably frustrating for gun owners, there’s nothing undemocratic about it. Trudeau uses OICs, Harper used OICs, for decades, OICs have been used both federally and provincially. Yes, this is a “major law” to you, but in the end it’s just an old law restricting firearms, which really doesn’t effect the majority of Canadians, and it had some new items added to it in a way that is acceptable until the law is amended, which neither Trudeau or Harper seemed all that interested in doing.
So, once again, characterising OICs as a Liberal issue, as “undemocratic,” or even suggesting a law was pushed through, just doesn’t line up with reality.
It was fairly tongue-in-cheek given the circumstances. If this is “circumventing the democratic process” then that has happened thousands of times across every government at both the federal and provincial level over the past however many decades.
As far as how I feel about it, as a non-gun owner who really doesn’t care about guns (the gun problem being select owners, not the items themselves of course) they could add or remove hundreds of items from the list every year and I don’t imagine it would impact my life at all.
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