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Three things about the Canadian Coalition for ‘Firearm Rights’.
1. They work hard to present as mild-mannered target shooters, hunters and farmers. The reality is they want US-style gun policies for Canada: open carry in rural areas and concealed carry in our cities, plus …
Three things about the Canadian Coalition for ‘Firearm Rights’.
1. They work hard to present as mild-mannered target shooters, hunters and farmers. The reality is they want US-style gun policies for Canada: open carry in rural areas and concealed carry in our cities, plus …
broad rights of self defence with guns - recall that’s what enabled the Rittenhouse creature to secure his recent acquittal.
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2. While the CCFR and their members cry ‘freedom’, it’s a particular kind of 🇺🇸 Second Amendment freedom, all focussed on their munitions.
By contrast, they have merely a nodding acquaintance with such things as freedom of expression.
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By contrast, they have merely a nodding acquaintance with such things as freedom of expression.
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When they’re not organizing campaigns of abusive mass complaints to medical regulators against doctors who dare to speak up in favour of tighter gun control, they threaten defamation lawsuits against critics on Twitter.
And when they’re not doing that, they condemn mass …
And when they’re not doing that, they condemn mass …
shooting survivors and victims’ families and friends who combine to advocate tighter gun control, using terms like these:
The aim, of course, is to intimidate and silence opposition. In this they will fail, as demonstrated over many decades by the persistence of gun control groups and individual advocates.
@Polysesouvient @CGCguncontrol @Docs4GunControl @DanforthFSC @christmasali @alandrummond2
@Polysesouvient @CGCguncontrol @Docs4GunControl @DanforthFSC @christmasali @alandrummond2
3. While the CCFR portrays itself as a lobby group, they’re the last people anyone charged with gun policy formation should listen to.
Conservatives recently discovered this, to their enormous cost.
CCFR should be left to fundraising via the rage-baiting of their tiny base.
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Conservatives recently discovered this, to their enormous cost.
CCFR should be left to fundraising via the rage-baiting of their tiny base.
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Leaders in all political parties can safely ignore them. Voters in urban Canada certainly rejected their campaign last time around, …
and current leaders would do well to do likewise.
@JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @marcomendicino @DavidLametti @BillBlair @MarkGerretsen @TurnbullWhitby @theJagmeetSingh @erinotoole @AmitaKuttner @yfblanchet #cdnpol
@JustinTrudeau @cafreeland @marcomendicino @DavidLametti @BillBlair @MarkGerretsen @TurnbullWhitby @theJagmeetSingh @erinotoole @AmitaKuttner @yfblanchet #cdnpol
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