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2020-05-02 Great White North
Canada's Justin Trudeau bans assault-style weapons after Nova Scotia shooting
[NYP] Canada has banned assault-style weapons one week after the country’s worst-ever mass shooting left 22 people dead — plus the gunman.

Unemployed denture maker Gabriel Wortman was armed with two semi-automatic rifles and several semi-automatic pistols — and one of the guns was a military-style assault weapon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police say, according to the Guardian newspaper.

"These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time," said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada," he said.

"Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country."

Trudeau had pledged last week to push for tighter gun legislation, including a ban on assault-style weapons.

List of banned weapons found at this link.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Assholes.
Posted by AlanC 2020-05-02 08:18||   2020-05-02 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Reichstag.

Scratch any lefty and you'll find a totalitarian.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-02 08:32||   2020-05-02 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Trudeau genetic marker? You decide.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 08:37||   2020-05-02 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 At least one, maybe two Canadian provinces will petition to join the USA. It will be yuuuuuge fun to watch.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-02 09:09||   2020-05-02 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Had enough, eh?
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 10:25||   2020-05-02 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Have been hearing off and on for 30-40 years about some of the western provinces separating from Canada.

Once the US loses a few stars on Old Glory within the next 20-30 years, perhaps they can then add one or two back.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 10:27||   2020-05-02 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 How about a trade, New England to include NYC, we'll keep upstate NY, for the Western provinces?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-02 11:04||   2020-05-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#8 I still chuckle that the sight/thought of Trudeau in dressed up in that Indian get-up on his visit a year or so ago. What a friggen putz.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 11:07||   2020-05-02 11:07|| Front Page Top

#9 If this crime took place over the period of an evening, you really think a semi-automatic was the cause. This loser could of carried this out with a butter knife.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-05-02 11:14||   2020-05-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Alberta, Sask, Manitoba, welcome aboard. Y'alls harvesters and oil patch know us, we know you, we can figure out the sweetened/unsweetened tea thing over a couple beers.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-02 11:14||   2020-05-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Once the US loses a few stars on Old Glory within the next 20-30 years, perhaps they can then add one or two back.

No need to lose any stars-- just add 4. Separate far Northern California from Calif (new state: "Jefferson"), add three new states (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and you have 54 = 9 rows of 6 stars each
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 11:15||   2020-05-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I can dig it!
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 11:16||   2020-05-02 11:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Illinois dissolves due to bankruptcy. Missouri and Iowa take everything from I-39 Winnebago County (Rockford) west. Indiana takes the eastern portion. Wisconsin takes Cook (Chicago), Lake, Dupage, and Will Counties.

California? Rinse repeat.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 11:23||   2020-05-02 11:23|| Front Page Top

#14 + Greenland = 55.

= 4 rows of 8 stars each, alternating with 3 rows of 7 stars.

Smaller stars, more space between the rows: Astral distancing.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 11:24||   2020-05-02 11:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Blue flag, one star. Comes with catchy tune.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 11:37||   2020-05-02 11:37|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ is that a cameo of Ted Turner at 0:36?
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 11:40||   2020-05-02 11:40|| Front Page Top

#17 California? Rinse repeat.

New York State: Rinse repeat.
Virginia: Rinse repeat.
Michigan: Rinse repeat.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 11:44||   2020-05-02 11:44|| Front Page Top

#18 Wisconsin might object to Cook County being part of the package, Besoeker.

Don't need the headaches and they can get by just fine on their own (as they've been telling the rest of the world for years).

A nice large walled, electrified and mined border could be created by the surrounding governments at much less cost than trying to sustain that failed city/state.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-05-02 12:16||   2020-05-02 12:16|| Front Page Top

#19 I hope Canada enjoys their slave collars. Wear them with PRIDE! And scream for joy at the lash of your master's whip.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-02 13:35||   2020-05-02 13:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Big deal, they can't even agree on a common language.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-02 14:07||   2020-05-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#21 #16 That’s definitely Ted, he bankrolled the film
Posted by Beavis 2020-05-02 14:53||   2020-05-02 14:53|| Front Page Top

#22 
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-02 15:15||   2020-05-02 15:15|| Front Page Top

#23 Pretty soon we'll get to that 59 state number, the one was not wrong just merely prescient!
Posted by illeagle 2020-05-02 18:57||   2020-05-02 18:57|| Front Page Top

#24 Ok 4 rows of 6 stars + 5 rows of 7 stars.
That's better. Same distance but smaller stars.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 19:08||   2020-05-02 19:08|| Front Page Top

#25 There's secession, and then there is booting the rotten ones oot.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-05-02 19:43||   2020-05-02 19:43|| Front Page Top

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