By: Anthony Morelli
One of the most aggressive gun grabs on the planet has failed.
The politicians who tried to implement this scheme have egg on their face.
And gun owners are happy and relieved as this awful plan crashed and burned.
Justin Trudeau has been one of the most authoritarian leaders that a Western-style democracy has ever seen in recent memory.
Between his response to the trucker protests, and now his attempt to eradicate guns from his entire nation, his response to nearly every political issue has been a government crackdown.
He has made Canada far less of a free nation than it was just a few short years ago, which is a tragedy as Canada has a long history of freedom and democracy.
However, the news isn’t all bad. His attempt at erasing guns from Canadian society altogether has proven to be a total failure.
He tried to do a gun buyback program to take guns away from people, but it didn’t work.
Now Trudeau looks weak and incompetent, and gun control advocates in Canada are wondering what they have to do to accomplish their goal.
According to The Truth About Guns, “The wheels are coming off of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun confiscation program (‘buyback’).”
“Several provinces have already ruled out entirely (here and here, for instance) any possibility that their law enforcement resources could be used to implement the confiscation of the banned firearms and devices. One provincial official’s position was characteristic of the spirit of this opposition, stating, ‘[w]e do not and will not support initiatives that only impact the law abiding, RCMP vetted, hunters, sport shooters, ranchers, farmers and others who use firearms for lawful and good reasons… we will not authorize the use of provincially funded resources of any type for the federal government’s ‘buy back’ program.’”
The Canadian provinces and the local police do not want to get involved in directly enforcing the law and taking people’s guns away.
They know how ugly this could turn, and they want to avoid that at all costs.
The article continues, “At the start of this year there were indications that the federal government was considering hiring private entities, rather than law enforcement or similar government agents, to enforce the ban and confiscation.”
“Canada Post, a Crown corporation, reportedly declined to participate in a mail-in collection of the prohibited firearms and devices, citing safety and security concerns.”
Evidently no one wants to take part in Trudeau’s gun confiscation scheme, and unless he is planning to take away the guns himself, the plan is going to fall apart.
Any law is only as effective as the people who are willing to enforce it, and it is becoming quite clear that Trudeau can’t find someone to enforce his new law.
This means Canadians will be able to hold on to their guns for a little while longer as Trudeau fumbles around.
And one can only imagine how much less willing police would be in the United States to enforce such a law here.