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Canada stuck between making new friends and sticking with that one friend that’s gotten super conservative (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

So? It demonstrates that, contrary to your assertion that people depend on American gun laws, it is perfectly possible to exist in these situations with Canada's gun laws. I get that people have an emotional dependency on guns, but that's not an actual necessity.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

All I claimed was that alaskans would have a hard time giving up their guns to join Canada. I never claimed it was impossible to live rurally without a gun.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why would they have to give up guns, we have guns in Canada

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Canada had significantly different gun laws and most of their current guns or accessories may be illegal depending on magazine capacity, barrel length, or specific model.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fair, but that's an easy fix. Like a shotgun holds 5 shells but in Canada you can only have 3 in it, so you load a plug. Change your magazine. Etc. Doesn't mean you give up everything, and on the flip side you get healthcare