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Many guns seized at Coutts border blockade are used for hunting: defence (globalnews.ca)
submitted 7 months ago by MapleEngineer to c/canada
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Remember that these are the guys who said that they were preparing to fight UN and/or Chinese troops who might invade Canada?

Now their lawyer says that they were used for hunting? Was she taking about the pipe bomb or the handguns?

I don't see a single trigger or cable lock in that photo. Was the ammunition stored in a separate locked container?

These guys should never be allowed to own a firearm again based solely on the UN/China delusion. These types of violent collective fantasies are extremely dangerous and they absolutely should be disqualifying.

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[–] MapleEngineer 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It’s highly unlikely that most people will ever encounter any scenario like that. That’s true. But that doesn’t make it a bad idea to be prepared.

It is an EXTREMELY bad idea. The chances that you're going to kill someone you love goes up dramatically when you have a gun in your home. You're not making yourself and your family safer you're making it FAR more likely that they will be a victim of gun violence.

Do you grind up your hotdogs so that you won't choke on them? Do you wear a life jacket in the bathtub? Have you stripped your bed of bedsheets? Do you wear a bee suit when you go outside? It's highly unlikely that any of those things are going to happen to you, too.

This is a riduclous argument. Literally worthy of ridicule.