Yesterday, a man picked up a gun and killed 18 students in an elementary school in Texas.
This morning a candidate for the leadership of the CPC promised to burn Canada’s gun control laws.
Wow - talk about not reading the room - at all. Possibly the worst hot take to publish the day after yet another mass shooting takes place in the United States.
Oddly, I do agree with the Canadian firearms lobby on one thing: The regulatory framework around firearms is a shambles - decades of fiddling and tweaking has resulted in a mess of seemingly arbitrary rules - banning some firearms and allowing others that are seemingly very similar in function and capability.
I don’t think the gun lobby would particularly like my approach though - because as far as I’m concerned, pretty much anything that isn’t a single shot firearm should be banned outright, and after that we can talk about what is allowed in terms of ammunition sizes.
However, I don’t particularly want to argue about the particulars of firearms regulation today. I’ve written other posts on the subject in the past. Today’s subject is about the culture associated with firearms.
