Captain Airhead's Communazi Gun Grab

During last year's Dominion election, when Captain Airhead was being swamped with scandal after scandal about how, despite all of his lectures to the rest of us about tolerance, multiculturalism, and diversity and despite his accusing everyone who disagreed with him, but especially Conservatives, of being a racist, he had frequently made use of "blackface" makeup, he sought to deflect attention from his crumbling image by promising a ban on military-style assault weapons.

This was a ridiculous promise to make for many reasons. The most obvious reason is that military assault weapons are already illegal for civilians to own in Canada. They have been illegal for over forty years. Captain Airhead ought to know this because it was his father who banned them. Perhaps he can be excused for not knowing that because he was only six years old at the time. I know it, however, and I was only one.

After the Nova Scotia mass shooting the other weekend Captain Airhead renewed this pledge. On Friday morning, in his daily performance for the news camera, he announced a ban on 1500 kinds of assault weapons.

Since assault weapons were already illegal for civilians to own what was he talking about?

The weapons he banned are semi-automatic rifles similar to and including the AR-15. Semi-automatic means that the chamber reloads itself, but it requires a separate trigger pull for each bullet. Although there is a military grade AR-15, that is not the AR-15 that has just been banned. The AR-15 style rifle that civilians have, up to now, been able, provided they go through the process of getting a gun licence, been able to purchase is a version of the military rifle that has been downgraded to an ordinary, semi-automatic, hunting and sporting rifle, by removing the functional features of a military grade weapon while retaining its outward appearance. None of the rifles banned are military grade weapons. They are ordinary, semi-automatic hunting rifles, that have a military "look" to them but lack the functional features that would distinguish a true, military, semi-automatic from a hunting semi-automatic. The AR in AR-15 does not stand for "Assault Rifle." The A stands for ArmaLite, the company that originally designed the rifle before selling it to Colt.

Captain Airhead said of these weapons "These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time." That is pure stercus tauri. Captain Airhead lies and he knows that he lies! As with any other hunting and sporting rifle that lacks their outward military look, these are sold to decent, law-abiding, salt-of-the-earth type Canadians who use them to hunt, to kill predators that threaten their livestock and other nuisance animals like gophers, and for target shooting.

The only word in the phrase "military-style assault weapon" as Captain Airhead has been using it that has any meaning is the word "style." It is all about the outward appearance of the guns. Indeed, this is about outward appearance in more ways than one.

Had this new gun ban been put in place one month earlier, it would not have prevented the shootings in Nova Scotia on April 18th and 19th. The perpetrator, Gabriel Wortman, whose name I would not have bothered to look up except that Captain Airhead does not want people using it and Captain Airhead can futuit ipsum, did not possess a licence to acquire and possess guns legally. It is unlikely that he could have obtained such a permit had he applied. He had been banned from possessing weapons after an assault charge eighteen years ago. The point is, that like most people who commit gun crimes, in Canada, he did not obtain his guns legally. Therefore, banning a particular gun would not have prevented this crime from taking place. For which reason it makes no rational sense as a response to this crime..

It was not intended to be. It was all about image. Captain Airhead wanted to be perceived as the Prime Minister who did something about gun crime, rather than the moron who went around calling everybody racist before getting caught wearing blackface, and so he promised to ban these guns. Then, when the Nova Scotia shootings occurred, he jumped on the opportunity to take advantage of other people's pain and suffering to make himself look good. He then took advantage of Parliament's not being in full session to quickly pass legislation that, due to his government being a minority government, he would never have been able to pass this fast had Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition been able to do its job properly. The legislation would not have prevented Wortman's crime had it been passed previously, it will do nothing to prevent future crimes of the type from occurring, it will only further harass all the law-abiding, gun-owning, Canadians that the Liberal Party loves to harass with stupid laws like this because they usually are not Liberal voters. It is just another example of Captain Airhead trying to look good for his support base of leftist, progressive, dolts.

If Captain Airhead really wanted to do something about preventing future mass shootings he would call for an immediate lift of all the restrictions that have been put in place by public health authorities who have blindly followed the recommendations of a World Health Organization that has been acting, under the leadership of an ethno-Marxist Director-General, as if it were the propaganda wing of the largest remaining Communist regime. These idiotic restrictions have robbed thousands of people of their livelihoods, the Nova Scotia killer among them. Government-mandated universal social isolation can cause people to snap. The longer these restrictions are in place, the more likely it will be that other people will lose their minds in a violent, destructive way. Ending the lockdown would be a far more sensible response to this event than a useless gun ban. It would have meant less totalitarianism, however, when Captain Airhead, who announced this ban on a Communist holiday, clearly wants more.