May – June 2024

Why Gun Bans? if we look at our history, we find that French and English settlers saw firearms as essential for food, personal protection and common defence, an idea very quickly seconded by Indigenous peoples. The idea that private gun ownership was a threat to public safety or being unarmed and defenseless made one safer was non-existent. Firearms restrictions, as they developed, were actually people control efforts – or, more accurately, control of the “wrong people.” Our history makes it clear that those in power prefer their populations disarmed, a preference tempered by needing them for defence, e.g. French and Indian wars or wanting their supporters armed and their critics defenceless – specifically addressed in the English Bill of Rights (1689).