About That Canadian Gun Control…

Canada used to not be awful on guns. Sure, they had some restrictions we didn’t have, but they also didn’t restrict barrel length, so one could argue it was a bit of a wash.

All that changed the moment outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was busted doing brownface in one of his cosplays. At that moment, he pulled a Ralph Northam and suddenly dedicated himself to gun control, which distracted the media like a cat seeing a laser pointer.

Among the many rules that have changed were new and heavy restrictions on handguns.

Now, these are the preferred firearm of your average criminal, so one could easily see the argument being made to justify such restrictions. The problem is that they’re not working worth a damn.

A gang of masked men burst into an Oakville home and threatened the residents with guns during an early morning robbery on Jan. 10.

Halton Police said the armed suspects broke into the home in the area of Coronation Drive and John Laird Circle around 3 a.m. and entered the bedrooms of the sleeping residents.

They pointed the firearms at the victims and demanded valuables and keys to their vehicles including a Mercedes SUV.

Now, if this were just an isolated incident, so be it. Things happen and even most gun control advocates, if pushed, will agree that no gun control law is 100 percent effective.

But it’s not.

In fact, I’ve talked a lot about just how ineffective Canada’s handgun restrictions and other gun control laws have been. So have the police up that way. Those are Toronto cops, too. That happens to be the same province of Canada as this incident.

I generally don’t care what other countries do all that much because their political systems aren’t our political systems. I think all rights should be respected, including and especially the right to keep and bear arms, though far too many nations refuse to even acknowledge that as a right.

But one of many issues with gun control in other countries is that far too many people want to import those laws. They want to do all of that here. They post on Twitter/X wistfully when new gun control laws banning entire categories of guns go through in other countries, telling everyone how they wish we’d all become “sensible” enough to enact those laws here.

Then they ignore how little the laws in question do.

Once the law is in place, they no longer care about anything except forcing it onto the American people.

Yet the efficacy of such laws in places like Ontario matters. The United States is a vastly more violent nation than Canada. If these laws aren’t effective in the Great White North, then how in the hell are they going to be effective in Chicago or Baltimore?

They’re not.

Gun control doesn’t work in Canada and they never had the issues we do. They’ve never had as many guns floating around as we do, either, which means any similar laws will do nothing to stop criminals. It just stomps on the rights of law-abiding citizens, which is something I care about no matter what country we’re talking about.