Trudeau Does What Leaders Do 🇨🇦

Canada plans to ban possession of assault weapons and sales of handguns

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/world/canada/canada-gun-buyback.html

America has been allowing a shift in the Overton Window about gun control for decades. My stance, that guns should be largely banned from a civilized society, is seen as extreme these days — even by people who agree with me on most other things.

The thing is, there is nothing extreme about what I’m saying. It’s a perfectly reasonable opinion about guns — and I would argue an incredibly obvious one. But the propaganda machine that has been put in place for decades to create the right wing gun cult in America has successfully shifted the entire conversation and made this view an outlier.

Well meaning politicians like Chris Murphy are left to play Lucy to Mitch McConnell’s fascist Charlie Brown, begging for the most trivial reforms.

Well, it‘s not a long trip to see why this is really a uniquely American psychosis. If Canada can ban assault weapons, so can we. If Canada can stop the flow of lethal hardware onto their streets so can we.

There are 11 million AR-15s in America — each capable of Buffalo or Uvalde. Every single one of them needs to be bought back and thrown into the Sun. ☀️

That would be a good start, anyway.

Vive le Canada! 🇨🇦