Not how to crowd the pandemic out of the headlines - 22 dead in NS

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Good on Canada for taking productive action. Now, personally, I hope that they follow up with improvements to proper background checks for people wanting guns. This is the other part of Australia's reforms back in the 90s that lots of people forget, focusing on the 'destroy all the guns' side of things.

Well, it was an election issue, and a majority of members of the House of Commons (members from four of the five parties) were elected on a platform of getting rid of them, so yeah. The only people who are complaining are the ones who lost the last election.

There's provisions for hunting in the Netherlands too, but if you want to hunt with a gun you first need a gun license anyway.

Likewise in Canada - and Canadian law distinguishes between "people who hunt to survive" and "people who hunt for sport". The rules are much more stringent for the latter group.

EDIT: Here's the relevant legislation, on the Department of Justice's website. (The government of Canada, like the governments of other free countries, puts its federal laws online where people can read them.)