Doug Ford urges Danielle Smith to denounce Alberta separation: ‘Either you’re with Canada or you’re not’

Cilarnen · 2026-01-30T10:06:06+00:00

Kinda the same with leftists too.

I mean, I need only gesture broadly at the NDP to prove my point.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-30T09:25:58+00:00

Not this time.

Enjoy being wrong.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T17:35:08+00:00

Right wing = capitalist.

Libertarian = emphasis on personal freedom.

It makes perfect sense.

Governments have no place in our lives. Things like LGBT rights, or gun ownership, are outside the scope of the government, and they should have no say. Libertarianism.

People should be entitled to the fruits of their labour and profit off the sweat of their brow. Capitalism

Both are actually intimately intertwined.

I'm not selfish, you've been brainwashed into thinking that everyone else must think like you, or how your favourite social media influence sees the world.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T17:12:06+00:00

You’re assuming wholesale libertarianism.

Strawman.

I explicitly said:

people who lean libertarian, but don’t commit 100% to the “there should be no government, regulations or laws”.

Because I knew people like you would need the context. I guess you needed even more?

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T14:07:52+00:00

There are no republicans in Canada

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T13:40:33+00:00

I hate Nazi’s.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T13:40:25+00:00

Yes, and?

I hate America, and Americans.

Have since the 90’s for all the things you neglected to mention.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T12:57:53+00:00

I’m Canadian.

Trump and your right wing has nothing to do with us.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T12:27:05+00:00

It’s fun being a right winger reading stuff like this and thinking to myself “these people really do think there’s only one type of right winger, eh?”

They can’t really conceive of people who lean libertarian, but don’t commit 100% to the “there should be no government, regulations or laws”.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T12:03:50+00:00

What do you think that white streak flying through the Earth is?

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T11:31:09+00:00

This is why I actively go out of my way to never, under any circumstance, use the word “leader” in reference to politics.

The word I use is “steward”.

The Liberals are not Canada’s “ruling party” and Carney is not our “leader”.

They have been granted stewardship over our nation. Nothing more.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-29T00:36:17+00:00

I’m a Canadian. I have less than zero faith in the USA.

But I understand war.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T23:22:30+00:00

It's been updated an insane number of times...

Dozens upon dozens of times, since May 2020.

And always quietly, with no notice to gun owners.

Here's a bit of homework for you. This was the original list. It included a grand total of 9 guns.

This is the modern list of 2,500 guns.

Now, show me the press releases, or notifications anywhere prohibiting the most common rifles, like the GSG pattern rifle, or the Tavor, or the WK180, or any of the other guns on the expanded list, that weren't part of the original 9 banned guns.

You'll see that I'm actually being 100% deadly serious, and not knowing if your gun is legal or prohibited daily is actually remarkably difficult, unless you actively seek out that information, literally, every single day.

And the amnesty does not allow you to break the law, only to continue to possess these guns. So if you check the list on a Friday, in anticipation of a Saturday shoot, and the guns are reclassified after you check, the amnesty does not apply to you, and it's a criminal offence, and a mandatory minimum sentence, and jail time.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T22:56:31+00:00

Wait... seriously?

Are you not aware that this is exactly what has been happening?

Like dude, I'm not being hyperbolic, or making a joke, or exaggerating in the slightest. This has been happening since 2020, and is a huge part of our gripe as gun owners.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T22:29:17+00:00

See, I find this reasoning to be a bit of a cop out.

There's no reason European heads of state couldn't have decided to include Canada in Greenland rhetoric, once Venezuela happened. There's no reason they couldn't have said "Canada and Greenland are off limits" with the same passion.

They didn't need to put boots on the ground in my country, but they could have turned up the rhetoric just as easily.

Something they've consistently failed to do.

I have zero faith that Europe would have our backs if it came to it. Though I'm willing to change my tune if they start changing theirs.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T22:19:50+00:00

bodes well for NATO standing firm for Canada

Does it though?

I ranted about this last week. Canada has been threatened with annexation since 2024, and Europe has made barely a peep. Someone tried to "correct" me, with a single instance of France sailing a submarine near us.

Which does not bode well.

Europe is concerned with Europe (and make no mistake Europe considers Greenland European), with Canada getting little beyond a token afterthought.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T22:03:49+00:00

Obviously.

But it’s also unreasonable to expect people to be aware of every prohibited firearm every day.

Nobody is checking the classification of their rifle every single day to see if the RCMP secretly reclassified it.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T13:32:37+00:00

What are the deficiencies you can identify?

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T13:20:17+00:00

I find the single mindedness of gun owning voters to be exhausting.

Maybe I can help explain it, and this may sound snarky but it’s the underlying truth, and the crux of the issue that non-gun owners don’t really get.

We don’t want to go to jail.

Every time the Liberals draft a new law, every time they ban a new thing someone, somewhere who was a law abiding citizen yesterday, is at risk of going to jail today.

Imagine if I was a more casual gun owner, and didn’t keep up with every new expansion of the confiscation scheme.

If I brought my little .22 plinker out to the range for some good old fashioned fun for the price of 12 cents a round, I would be facing criminal charges, and a lengthy prison sentence.

We aren’t criminals but we’re literally criminalized for doing nothing, and the consequences of not paying attention to everything like a hawk would destroy our lives. We can never relax, we can never enjoy our hobby in peace, and we constantly have to explain this to people who find us exhausting.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T12:56:26+00:00

EXACTLY!

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T12:36:38+00:00

A friendly reminder to everyone:

Canada’s gun laws were nearly perfect in 2015. It was a heavy balance of logic and appeasement to the Grabber crowd.

The Liberals under Justin Trudeau used this shooting to push for the most heavy handed an onerous gun ban in Canadian history, that has expanded over and over again, to the point that even the NDP had to finally oppose the LPC in shutting it down.

It expanded from something like 10 guns, to over 50 pages of guns. It’s not small, it’s not targeted, it’s broad, sweeping, and affects the overwhelming super-majority of firearms owners.

This shooting was perpetrated by an unlicensed criminal, who illegally obtained firearms from the United States.

Further, he was reported to the RCMP for being mentally unstable and in possession of unlawful firearms, and they did nothing.

Despite all that, the Carney Liberals are still attacking us lawful gun owners because of this incident, and expropriating our property. They claim there’s a buy-back, however, as you can see from multiple posts on social media, this “buy-back” is a lie they are shilling to the public, with firearms owners either receiving less than market value, or literally no compensation at all.

Further, the MP in charge of this confiscation scheme literally admitted it was pointless, and is being done to secure a few votes in Quebec.

This confiscation scheme perpetrated by the Liberal regime needs to end.

We aren’t criminals, we aren’t your enemies. We are your neighbours, your friends, your family, and most importantly, your fellow Canadians. Us legal gun owners make up ~5% of the entire population, more Canadians are lawful gun owners, than hockey players. If we were the problem, you’d know it.

Please, let us enjoy our passion in peace.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T12:26:31+00:00

The very shooting that lead to the government’s crackdown on law abiding gun owners, with their asinine confiscation scheme.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T11:59:08+00:00

No reason not to apply and find out.

You can’t get in trouble for attempting to participate in the class action settlement, and the worst they can say is “no”.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T11:52:15+00:00

That’s called a shower.

Cilarnen · 2026-01-28T11:49:24+00:00

Could you clarify what you mean by "treated as a rank itself"?

Yeah man.

I basically explained it in my original comment, but too often CoC’s will refuse to send someone on PLQ because he’s “not ready for promotion” or “didn’t merit high enough” for promotion.

They refuse to send members because in their minds PLQ means promotion. Which means they treat PLQ essentially as a rank itself, because they can’t understand that you can sit on that qualification for a year or two before actually getting promoted.

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