Trudeau bans handgun sales, and now he’s fighting to lessen penalty for major gun crime

Gun sales are flying off the shelves in Canada so fast that many stores are “selling out altogether after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced gun control legislation freezing all pistol purchases.” But something else is happening. Trudeau is now defending another piece of legislation before Parliament that will reduce sentencing requirements for serious gun crimes. The contradiction may seem peculiar to those who haven’t been following Justin Trudeau.

First of all, potential gun owners are properly screened in Canada, so there was no need for tighter gun legislation in the country in the first place.

Trudeau’s ban was announced on the heels of the Texas mass murder, during which Texas police actually stopped parents from trying to go in and save their children. Some Uvalde parents who were armed and ready to storm the school, but were blocked by armed police who refused to go in themselves.

Trudeau branded his gun ban as a safety issue: “Keeping Canadians safe is the Government of Canada’s top priority.” But does Trudeau really care about the safety of Canadians? Trudeau threw out a welcome mat for Islamic State jihadists, and continues a lax immigration policy that provides a perfect opportunity for jihadists and the worst criminals to enter Canada. Yet he touts his commitment to keeping Canadians safe. Trudeau has also faced ethics violations for misusing taxpayer funds. Watch how Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre humiliated and cornered him about his crookedness and breach of the Ethics Act HERE.  Trudeau isn’t a man that engenders trust.

With Trudeau’s new laws, only criminals and the government will end up being armed. The Trudeau ban also serves as a boon to the illegal market. CTV news republished a radio news story entitled Radio host proves how easy it is to find an illegal gun in Toronto.

Tighter gun controls are feel-good measures employed by Leftist politicians who hijack tragedies to boost their popularity. They do not work. One need only look to Chicago and Washington, DC, with their high rates of violent crime; both are among the strictest jurisdictions for gun laws in America.

Chicago earned the nickname Chiraq to reflect the intensity of its gun violence – comparing the city to the war zone of Iraq. “60% of the guns recovered in Chicago were originally purchased out of state, with Indiana, Mississippi and Wisconsin among the top suppliers.” But Chicago’s violence is driven by illegal guns. Chicago police “recover at least 10,000 firearms every year,” yet “there are zero gun stores within city limits.”

Britain saw knife crime soar in 2020, showing further that it isn’t guns and knives that are activating themselves; it’s disturbed human beings and criminals who are using them.

Leftist leaders continue to push policies that are detrimental to national security, the rule of law, life, the nuclear family, racial harmony, the economy and mental health; yet they scream about gun control in the societies that they helped to destroy.

Gun bans have never worked. Hitler took guns away in Germany, then murdered millions of Jews. Stalin also took guns away, and then murdered millions. Ditto for the worst mass murderer in history, Mao Zedong. Castro also disarmed his population and massacred his own people.

While Trudeau pretends to care about Canada in his move to take away guns from law-abiding citizens, he is merely politicking. His simultaneous reduction of sentences for serious gun crimes is supposedly in service of “racial equity,” which is a real slap in the face to law-abiding blacks and aboriginals. As the Toronto Sun points out:

The prime minister is defending a bill his government has before Parliament to reduce sentencing requirements for gun crimes, saying it’s about racial equity. “What our communities need is a justice system that punishes criminals. What we do not need is a system that targets racialized people because of systemic discrimination.”

Despite Trudeau’s incompetence, dishonesty, ethical infractions, and divisive politics, there is one event that put him on the map globally: the Freedom Convoy. He insulted concerned Canadians before the world as showing “’disrespect to science’ and championing ‘hate, abuse and racism.” Of course, he ignored the many visible minorities and religious groups who took part in the protests. And even prior to Canada’s Freedom Convoy, Lifesite News published the headline: Canada is sinking into totalitarianism. The evidence is overwhelming. It is also worth noting that Trudeau stated during the trucker protests that police requested need for the Emergencies Act to be invoked. But it was recently revealed that he lied. The Emergencies Act was not requested by police. 

Canada is not only sinking into totalitarianism. It is sinking into complete decay: economically, socially and in regard to the rule of law.

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CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

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