1. La Controversia del Programa Federal de Confiscación y Recompra.
El programa de recompra de armas de fuego de estilo asalto, impulsado por el gobierno liberal de Mark Carney, ha generado una intensa polémica. Los críticos, incluidos propietarios de armas y la oposición, argumentan que es un "teatro político" costoso e ineficaz que no aborda el problema real de las armas ilegales, sino que penaliza a los propietarios que cumplen con la ley.
- The liberals face a furious prairie battle over mandatory gun buybacks.
- The program scores very low on the policy coherence scale, imho. Canada gun buyback minister heard questioning program.
- The gun confiscation scheme will do nothing to impact criminals and will only impact first nations and hunters.
- Liberals are still going to waste 785m. Even when they know it will fail.
- The buyback is only voluntary by title. Lawful gun owners only have options that force them to destroy their firearms, or give them to the govt for less than what they paid or nothing. Definitely not voluntary.
2. La Frontera Porosa: El Contrabando de Armas desde Estados Unidos.
Una de las principales preocupaciones en Canadá es la afluencia de armas ilegales provenientes de Estados Unidos, un país con leyes de armas mucho más laxas. Las estadísticas policiales indican que la gran mayoría de las armas utilizadas en crímenes en Canadá tienen su origen al sur de la frontera, lo que subraya la diferencia cultural y legal entre ambas naciones.
- The u.s. Is a global exporter of firearms and the vast majority of crime guns in canada are originating in a very small kind of handful of u.s. States that have much more lax and porous gun laws, he said.
- Canada knows you have a gun problem in america, why? because 89 of all gun crimes committed in canada are with guns coming in from the united states.
- Canada were literally right next door and have 14 your gun death rate. Its not geography, mate.
- In america we are not safe anytime, anywhere! its the guns! this does not happen everyday in canada or other countries with strict gun laws!
- In canada liberty is more freedom from than freedom to we have freedom from gun violence.
3. El Modelo Canadiense: Propiedad de Armas como Privilegio Regulado.
A diferencia de EE. UU., donde la posesión de armas se considera un derecho constitucional (Segunda Enmienda), en Canadá se trata como un privilegio sujeto a estrictas regulaciones, cursos de seguridad y verificaciones de antecedentes. La cultura se centra en la caza y el deporte, lo que resulta en tasas de violencia armada significativamente más bajas.
- In canada guns can only be owned for sport and not self defense.
- Canada has pretty strict gun laws. I own a bolt action rifle and i had to go through a safety course and extensive background checks.
- In canada its a right to have health care and a privilege to own a gun.
- Canadian values re firearms as reflected in our gun laws are very different from the u.s., thank goodness!
- Handguns assault weapons entirely banned. Shotguns available for sports shooting farms. Plus long arms for culling deer etc. Background checks required for ownerships and weapons stored securely.