Nah, it couldn't be

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is very concerned about the safety of the Canadian people. To further the issue of safety, The PM's Liberal Party has introduced legislation to ban the selling, buying, or transfer of handguns in the country.

Thank you for your concern, Mr. Prime Minister.

How bad is the gun violence problem in Canada? According to Statista.com, there were 277 homicides by firearms in Canada in 2020. As for gun deaths overall, GunPolicy.Org says there were 695 firearm deaths in Canada in 2018 -- part of an up and, mostly, down trend since 2000.

Yes, the Prime Minister has the best interests of the Canadian people at heart -- the same Prime Minster who feels it is his job to weigh in on what views are not acceptable.

Speaking like a good man of the people.

 

Yes, the best interests of Canadians are of paramount interest to the good Prime Minister. To that end, the Trudeau government has authorized the Province of British Columbia to virtually decriminalize hard drugs. 

Why shouldn't they? After all, in the first ten months of 2021, there were only 1,782 deaths by overdoses in British Columbia alone. The wisdom of the Canadian governments is that it is better that six times more people die from overdoses in BC than are killed by homicide with a fire arm in the entire country, two-and-a-half times more than people killed by guns for any reason.

 

The reason for this is because having drugs be illegal makes addicts feel bad about themselves.

 

Don't you feel better already?

  

The argument could be made that drug addiction is a mental health problem. It could also be argued that the War On Drugs has done more to militarize governments from local to national levels. However, does giving tacit governmental approval for drug use do anything to combat the problem? Would authorities be just as open minded for possession of alcohol in a public park?

Let's make it easier for people to shirk personal responsibility, while making those who shoulder such responsibility pay for the results. It couldn't be that governments want to be able to micromanage the populous, making sure we are too stoned to realize what is happening -- could it?