Tue Jun 14, 2022 – 6:33 pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (LifeSiteNews) — In a recent radio interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced to the public that Canadians do “not have a right” to use a gun for “self-protection.”
“We have a culture where the difference is guns can be used for hunting or for sport shooting in Canada, and there are lots of gun owners and they’re mostly law respecting and law abiding, but you can’t use a gun for self-protection in Canada,” Trudeau said on the Los Angeles-based “Pod Save the World Podcast” last week.
“That’s not a right that you have, either in the Constitution or anywhere else,” the prime minister added. “If you try and buy a gun and say it’s for self-protection, no, you don’t get that, you can get it for hunting, you can get it for sport shooting, you can take it to the range, no problem, as long as you go through our rigorous background checks.”
While Trudeau is correct in saying that gun ownership is not an enshrined right in Canada, and that one cannot purchase a gun for the purposes of self-protection, many immediately pushed back against
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