MattKinapen

PSA: An armed citizenry is a critical component of public safety. The Canadian firearms community needs to stop surrendering the moral high-ground on this point. The definition of public safety of the ruling class is essentially a state of being whereby whatever they fear is prohibited, and all risk they personally find intolerable mitigated. Public safety, in other words, is not a clearly defined moral or legal standard: it is, literally, the personal sentiments, whims, and biases of an unelected, risk-averse managerial class. Their fears and perception of risks doesn't even need to be real. Disarming and confiscating lawfully-purchased property from licensed firearms owners is so obviously not about public safety. So why do we keep playing this game? Canada is in the state it is in, in large part, because reasonable and responsible people basically accepted these false standards without a fight. We feared the name-calling that would inevitably ensue if we said normal things. Things like: "the defence of one's family is a legitimate use of a firearm" "Self-defence is a legitimate component of public safety" "History and human nature have taught us, unequivocally, that that State should never have an absolute monopoly on violence" "An armed citizenry is a necessary component of public safety" And now we are governed by people who genuinely see Grandpa with his coyote gun on his 100 acres as a legitimate threat to 'public safety'. Lastly, the people who allow murderers and rapists to receive bail...and continue to murder and rape citizens..aren't the people who care about public safety. They care about control, and an armed citizenry is a balance to power they fear and resent. Whatever the outcome of this case, Canadians need to find their moral courage and clarity, and stop letting lunatics and moral reprobates shame us into silence. Take the moral high ground, and defend it with your life. That begins with resolving to never, ever hand over your firearms to the State. The fight must go on. @CCFR_CCDAF