{"id":132631,"date":"2022-10-24T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132631"},"modified":"2022-10-23T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:27:31","slug":"formerly-free-canada-hits-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132631","title":{"rendered":"Formerly Free Canada hits new low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93501 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/revolver-knife.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/revolver-knife.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/revolver-knife.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/revolver-knife.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/revolver-knife.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who say &#8220;all we want to do with guns is X&#8221; you can just point north.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports.<\/p>\n<p>But Tyler Shandro, Alberta&#8217;s Minister of Justice, said the move unfairly penalized law-abiding firearms owners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The federal government&#8217;s real goal is to scapegoat handgun owners and use wedge politics to appeal to a narrow base of voters who wish to see legal firearm ownership in this country eliminated entirely,&#8221; Shandro said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has stricter gun laws than the United States, but Canadians can own firearms with a license. Some firearms must also be registered.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s gun homicide rate is a fraction of the United States&#8217; rate, 2020 data showed, but is still higher than other wealthy countries and has been rising, with handguns the main weapon used in the majority of firearm-related violent crimes between 2009 and 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/canada-bans-handgun-sales-imports-161802449.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\">Reuters via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s almost like criminals don&#8217;t obey laws or something.<\/p>\n<p>They started with registrations, then targeted bans (banning AK-47 variants the civilians used, not banning Mini-14 variants used by the government in 1991) to pre-sale licensing and now a flat ban on sales of any handguns at all. This is what it means to be ruled, folks. The rulers decide what citizens are allowed, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. \u00a0 Remember when\u00a0 Canada used to be a free country?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who say &#8220;all we want to do with guns is X&#8221; you can just point north. Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports. But Tyler Shandro, Alberta&#8217;s Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,631,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-canada","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-yvd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}