Laws on militias and the right to bear arms (piefed.ca)

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Hello /c/Canada

You know how there's a 2nd amendment in the U.S. on the right to bear arms? I know that it was originally meant to allow people to form militias and defend their rights should the government become an authoritarian regime and stop following the constitution.

Is there anything similar in Canada in terms of laws or rights and freedoms?

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

The user who commented just above me literally just said that governments are creating laws to dictate where and how we can use our freedom of assembly.

Shooting people is not the only way to express civil disobedience. In fact it's the worst possible thing you can do.

The fact that your immediate answer to "We're being limited in where we can assemble" is to bring a gun rather than just "Hey...let's assemble there anyway and bring the press with us". Says a lot about you.

There's a thousand ways to prove your point and affect change without resorting to guns, and that's how we like it in Canada. The American "Guns as the first and only option in all things" is psychotic.