Dano

[Dano @chalackd]

I've commonly seen Canadian gun owners expressing concerns about, as well as extremist anti-gun zealots threatening, that a day might come where the RCMP was sent door-to-door in search of newly prohibited firearms.

So, let's take a closer look at this idea...

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[Dano @chalackd]

@DschlopesIsBack Strange way to make a glory hole...

[Dano @chalackd]

@ThatGuyThePlace @Dicky_Paul_95 I guess not anymore, the more they hint at banning them, the more sell, and the price goes up...

Not that long ago they were easily sub $500 though.

[Dano @chalackd]

@MomsPostingLs I kind of agree...

Don't ban the Kirpan.

Deport most of the foreigners instead.

[Dano @chalackd]

I don't agree with you at all though.

That I acknowledge assault rifles were banned decades ago doesn't mean that I agree with it, or think that it was an effective or useful gun control measure.

The effect of such bans on reducing or preventing murders was factually not meaningful. Research and inquiries after such tragedies have concluded time and time again that the particular model of firearm used is not a meaningful factor in the outcome. When somebody decides to attack unarmed people, things like 'rapid fire' or the few seconds it takes to reload aren't things that stop them. All sorts of guns are banned, tragedies keep occurring, because gun bans don't solve any meaningful problem.

[Dano @chalackd]

@IanRunkle You'd likely enjoy one of these chocolate bars...

It's a little much for me, but I've lost a lot of the heart tolerance that I used to have, in recent years.

[Dano @chalackd]

@explorerrook @GunGnome Assault rifles were banned in the late 1970's, and basically haven't existed in Canada for decades.

The guns being targeted currently weren't on our streets, or contributing to crime or violence in any meaningful way.

You fake gun owner propagandists are the worst...

[Dano @chalackd]

@Polysesouvient What a surprise, the illegal market that you've been diverting attention and resources away from for decades, is thriving...

[Dano @chalackd]

@BobStanley66078 @EpicBronyGaming They do that because basically nobody agrees with their nonsense...

[Dano @chalackd]

Yeah, it was something about like that timeframe, and the US would likely have taken all our strategic positions, and from that point we'd be left with some hopes and dreams of engaging in some kind of guerrilla resistance like the Taliban in Afghanistan...

And I don't see that effort getting anywhere, we don't have any similar zealous devotion to a cause, don't have equipment, don't have a population that's been perpetually at war, and are already lacking national unity.

I suspect that it would be more like a few pockets of semi independent, poorly equipped holdouts in the urban centers, and a few tiny rural groups. Everyone else would just go about their lives like normal, split between some that think someone else will fight for them, and others who just don't see what Canada has become as worth fighting for.

[Dano @chalackd]

@revenant_MMXX Primarily by bringing back shaming.

Also, limitations on publicly funded healthcare, when it comes to the issues related to a self inflicted problem like this. Make them pay for themselves, or let them just continue to kill themselves.

[Dano @chalackd]

@Polysesouvient Lol, quoting a radical leftist hate group now...

[Dano @chalackd]

@nuhre_ I just don't buy those titles new anymore, and haven't for a few years now.

They always end up deeply discounted on a Steam sale or the like eventually.

[Dano @chalackd]

A year+ just to get the appointment, from what I've been hearing, then typically another month or two until the actual appointment...

I could supposedly get seen faster by booking privately, but I remember my uncle going around a referral to a private clinic specialist once, for something related to his diabetes, and his GP almost dropped him over it because they get paid for referrals, and don't if you set up an appointment yourself... I don't want to risk upsetting my GP like that, plus can't likely afford a private appointment.

(Which also gets funny, that so many people act like we don't already have so much private healthcare, when the discussions come to that stuff)

[Dano @chalackd]

How about cutting money laundering to Ukraine?

Benefits for unproductive newcomers, their elderly tagalongs, and fake asylum seekers.

Some of the ridiculous foreign aid that goes to well off countries, or for ridiculous efforts like gender diverse rice farming.

Government waste, grift, and bloated salaries.

There's plenty of popular options to cut first, before cutting Canadian seniors.

[Dano @chalackd]

@wealthmoose All kinds of foreign aid should be cut before cutting seniors.

Along with a lot of government grift and waste.

[Dano @chalackd]

Reminds me of flying in to Northern Alberta for work...

Flight left from Edmonton international, but from an entirely seperate building than the main terminal. While we faced basically the same rules as to what we could board with, there wasn't even regular airport security, just G4S contracted by Shell.

It's basically a private flight, as are these government trips, so they definitely have a lot more room to do whatever they want.

[Dano @chalackd]

I had a family doctor once, as a teen. He ended up passing away within a couple years of taking me on and I didn't have another until last year.

Granted, I'm a healthy guy who's only recently come into middle aged, so I also didn't have much need to seek out a regular family doctor.

I'm also currently waiting on a referral to an ENT after a ruptured ear drum from the recent car accident, and according to anyone I know who's had to see one, they're backed up around a year before you can expect an appointment...

[Dano @chalackd]

Agreed.

I've always just driven old cars, bought them outright for very cheap, fixed them myself fairly cheap, and by the time I've replaced them they haven't owed me anything.

My current car is an 02 Lincoln Continental (Awful old car, too unrepairable, it was kind of an oddball platform in it's short production run so a lot of parts are unavailable). Bought at auction for $450.

Before that, 05 Ford Focus, $650 at auction.

That came after a really clean, low mile 89 Grand Marquis for $750.

Prior to that was an 88 Crown Victoria, for $200, which became a parts donor for the Marquis.

And it's been a trend like that going back to when I started driving. A bit a whole car and repair it for the cost most of my friends pay for a month or two of financing on their vehicles.

And to be fair, I was blessed to grow up with two mechanics in my household, so learned a lot repair skills that way. But we're in the YouTube era these days, and there's a lot of things I fix that my old school mechanic relatives didn't ever work on, that I really on online tutorials to figure out.

[Dano @chalackd]

@jvits62 @JayGenXer Okay, so then why did these problems exist under the previous Ontario Liberal government as well?