Thread by @DavidHamer_1951

Long reflection on the gunnie community and gun control in
🇨🇦Canada.👇🏻
@Docs4GunControl @Polysesouvient @christmasali @alandrummond2 @DanforthFSC @DavidLametti @BillBlair #cdnpoli

As evident on here and elsewhere, the 🇨🇦Canadian gunnie community nurtures a culture of bullying and grievance. It’s not enough for our gunnies to disagree strenuously with gun control advocates, which they’re perfectly entitled to do.

Instead many work actively to bully their opponents into silence. Perhaps the best example of that is the ill-fated campaign by the so-called Canadian Coalition for “Firearm Rights” to organize mass complaints of professional misconduct against physician advocates of gun control.

The ridiculous theory of the complaints was that physicians who saw the ill effects of gun violence on a daily basis were misusing their professional standing to urge better controls on the sources of those ill effects. As non-experts in the intricacies of weaponry and the ...

existing legal regime, the physicians weren’t just wrong, the theory ran, they had no right to speak on the issue at all. Be silent, was the message, or we’ll get your license taken away. Needless to say, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which has long encouraged its ...

members to speak out on all sorts of public health issues, made short shrift of the CCFR’s vicious effort. The complaints were dismissed summarily, without a formal investigation, under the College’s statutory power to deal with frivolous, vexatious and ...

abusive complaints. (As a side note, this writer first got interested in the whole gun control issue due to that crazy effort, leading to the launch of a thousand tweets). Fittingly the leader of the doctors’ group has since received national honours for her efforts.
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The same kind of bullying has been aimed at the mother of a young woman shot to death by her estranged partner ...

with the mother’s advocacy on here frequently being met by gunnies blaming her (!!!) as being in some way complicit in her own daughter’s death through foreknowledge of the husband’s abusive nature. The utter gall, is all one can say about that. ...

Similarly, the Québec-based group that memorializes the victims of the Polytechnique mass shooting are routinely dismissed with a derisive nickname and accusations of ‘grave-dancing’. Same with any gun control advocate who dares mention the Nova Scotia massacre.

And a small-town family physician/ER doctor, a gun-owner himself who advocates for tighter control, is attacked baselessly and cruelly and falsely as being an alcoholic.

The bullying trait even comes out in the kinds of weapons today’s gunnies tend to favour. ‘These aren’t really assault weapons,’ they claim, ‘they’re just made up to look as scary as the real thing - that’s why they’re black or camo and covered with military-looking ...

contraptions .’
But that’s the point, folks. They love the very look of the things. With them, they can be really big bullies, and swagger around at their gun ranges, fantasizing about intimidating all those liberal elites in the big cities.

And at the same time, gunnies whine constantly about being victimized and demonized, with some even going so far as to compare themselves to the victims of Nazi Germany.🙄😔🙄
Their faux self-image as an aggrieved and persecuted minority inevitably vents in the form of vitriol..

and reflexive bullying.
Also at the same time, every gun control advocate is met with accusations of being ‘vile’, ‘inciting hatred’, and ‘divisive’.

This is where much of the concern arises about having heavily-armed civilian population.
Who wants to be around a bully who has a gun? Or lots of guns?
To be sure, the majority of gun owners aren’t bullies and aren’t going to go around shooting people no matter how

persecuted they feel. But, given the marginal social utility of their hobbies or fetishes or cultism or whatever it is, why should the rest of us (a huge majority of 🇨🇦Canadians) who don’t have guns be required to live with the risk of the occasional well-armed licensee losing ..

it and going postal?
Here we’re not talking about legitimate hunting and farm uses for firearms that may be permitted under strict and appropriate safeguards, but we are talking about widespread, unnecessary gun possession whose risks now outweigh any outmoded benefits.

So the next time an angry gunnie tweets on here demanding silence (whether explicitly or implicitly) from gun control advocates, may one suggest people ask themselves if that is a personality that should be allowed to possess lethal weapons capable of killing large numbers...

in short order.
Again, who wants to be around a grievance-laden bully who’s carrying a great big gun?
We mustn’t be afraid to keep speaking up.
That is all.

Kinda funny, 🇨🇦Canada’s leading gunnie lobbyist staying true to form with a contemptuous ‘AntiGunTrollNobodysEverHeardOf’ ‘BeatIt’.
🤷🏼😂🤷🏼

Uh, oh, there she goes again, back to the bullying👇🏻
🤷🏼😂🤷🏼