The United States and Canada may look like similar enough nations. Canadians can pass for Americans and vice versa. Most won't be able to tell the difference, at least not at first blush.
But our nations are quite different, and one area of difference is gun control. Vice President Kamala Harris wants a lot of what they have.
For example, she's still running in part on an assault weapon ban. Canada has one.
And this is the real result of it:
The Shooting Edge Inc. announced late Wednesday that it has permanently closed and will soon file for bankruptcy.
The gun store cited a confluence of factors that led to the company’s insolvency, including recent gun-control legislation, financial losses incurred during COVID-19 and steep rent hikes that were expected to increase in the coming months.
“I’m tapped out,” owner J.R. Cox said in an interview with Postmedia.
Cox has also seen a precipitous decline in membership over the past four years as federal legislation limited the number of new gun owners in the province, he said, resulting in declines in revenue that have reached as high as $3 million annually.
The Calgary business owner, who formerly served in a reserve unit at Currie Armoury in Calgary, has long been an advocate for Alberta gun users. He owns a shooting range in Ontario that’s still operating, and owns an international firearms company called Sterling Arms International Inc.
The business has seen rent costs skyrocket from $61,000 per month in 2021 to $95,000 a month — a number Cox was told would exceed $100,000 next year. He said negotiations with the landlord have been unsuccessful.
“There’s only so much blood from the stone,” Cox said, adding he’s subsidized Shooting Edge for about two years using earnings from his other businesses.
Understand that this isn't a bug. It's a feature.
See, while Canada doesn't recognize the right to keep and bear arms, the truth is that it doesn't really matter. You don't have to restrict rights completely to effectively have a total gun ban. What you need to do is make it so hard to get a gun that it's virtually impossible for the average person to obtain one.
At that point, the elite will get their guns while everyone else is left defenseless against those same elites.
Yeah, I can't imagine why anyone would be uncomfortable with that notion.
Anyway, we have a lot of gun stores and shooting ranges here in the United States and we've seen a number of them be forced to relocate from anti-gun states to more pro-gun areas.
If Kamala Harris gets her way, though? If she gets her way, there will be no pro-gun areas left. I mean, sure, the people there will still support the right to keep and bear arms, but it won't really matter because the laws will be forced down their throats at the federal level. At a certain point, one well short of a gun ban, stories like the one above will become commonplace. The outlets that we need to obtain guns will be run out of business. The ranges where we go to learn how to use our weapons effectively will be bulldozed and turned into something else.
She doesn't need a total gun ban. She just needs the ability to push just far enough that the effect will be the same.
And, to be fair, this isn't exclusive to Harris. Yes, Walz would do it too, but so would a lot of other Democrats, all while claiming to value the Second Amendment as well.
Elections have consequences. Don't recognize them after they happen. Recognize that this is what someone like Harris wants and stop pretending guns aren't a key issue in preventing tyranny.
