Yukon Strong, a hunting guide and YouTuber, critiques Canada’s 2020 Liberal gun ban—imposed without debate during the pandemic—as undemocratic, while dismissing "assault weapon" rhetoric as fear-mongering slang. He argues actual assault rifles (banned since 1977) are irrelevant to the debate and accuses anti-gun activists of fake petitions and extremism. Frustrated by past inaction under Harper, he urges gun owners to grow their ranks to 10% by licensing urban women and youth, warning that complacency risks permanent restrictions. The Integrity March’s 5,000 attendees prove real grassroots opposition, but he insists the fight demands sustained political engagement and community-building. [Automatically generated summary]
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The largest pro-gun rights rally in a generation took place on Parliament Hill over the weekend and- And so, of course, CBC got the whole story wrong.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
Saturday, September 12th on Parliament Hill, 5,000 Canadians from all across the country and from all walks of life came together in the nation's capital to participate in the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights Integrity March.
Now, the marchers said they wanted integrity from politicians, the liberals, let's be honest here, who rammed through a massive gun ban, 1,500 models of hunting rifles and shotguns in the middle of a pandemic outside the scrutiny of Parliament in an ordering council with just the stroke of a pen.
It's wholly undemocratic.
Now, Rebel News was there with two teams of reporters on the ground to make sure that someone in the media got the story right because we knew the state broadcaster CBC and the rest of the mainstream media would definitely not and they did not fail to disappoint.
They have to protect their sugar daddy paymaster Justin Trudeau, as you know.
The CBC misreported the number of marchers as hundreds instead of thousands.
They said the CCFR declined to speak to them when the CCFR absolutely did.
NCBC generally did their very best to downplay the groundspell of mainstream anger and opposition to the outlawing of lawfully obtained property from law-abiding people as a response to illegal gun crime happening in Canada's big cities.
Now, it was a very busy day, and you can see all of our coverage of the event and support our independent coverage at handsoffourguns.ca.
But the day was so busy that I didn't get to talk to everyone I wanted to talk to.
My guest tonight is one of those people.
Joining me tonight from his home in the Yukon in an interview we recorded yesterday morning is DJ Sumanik.
Most of you may know him as UConn Strong.
So joining me now from his home in the UConn is DJ Sumanik.
Now, most of you gun enthusiasts out there may know him as Yukon Strong, strong advocate for the rights of Canada's lawful, law-abiding firearms community.
And I'm so excited to have him on the show.
DJ, thanks for joining me.
Why don't you give people a brief rundown?
I mean, the firearms community will definitely know who you are, but not everybody who watches my show is from the firearms community.
A lot of them just care about property rights, which is good enough for me.
Why don't you tell them a little bit about who you are?
Shoulder Season Adventures00:03:54
Well, before we start, I have to tell you, Sheila, when you were at the Integrity March the other day, I found out that you are literally an angel on my shoulder.
And if you go and watch the Andrew Lawton show, they had me on there doing an interview, and it was like a weird camera trick.
You were just in the background, but you were like sitting on my shoulder for interview.
Wait a minute, that's Sheila Gunread back there on her shoulder.
So I'm like, is she a good angel or an evil angel?
You know, I did get it at the inter or at the rally, people were like, you're a lot smaller in person.
So maybe, maybe that's just like one of those things.
I'm just a little tiny person on your shoulder.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, as for myself, let's see.
Well, born and raised in the Yukon, very much an outdoor-oriented childhood.
So my father, he had definitely some different ideas, even for up here back then.
So we had a trap line to start with, but we also had a fox farm to breed for fur.
We also live trapped lynx, Martin, and Fisher to breed in captivity for zoos.
So anyway, that was like most of the year-round job doing that, you know.
And then any other time we had left, we were out there hunting, hiking in the mountains.
I'm a sheep hunting addict is what my, that's where my love is.
I work all year to get out there and get in the mountains and just be amongst the elements.
That's my, oh, I'm just thinking about it right now because it's that time of year, right?
And, you know, when I was about, I think I was seven, I was five or seven, I can't remember.
My sister, my mother, and I were in a really bad car crash and she wound up getting a brain aneurysm and paralysis from it.
So at that point, we had to move into the city to go get her help to get, you know, physiotherapy and things like that to get her along.
And so I stopped hunting for a good 10, 10 to 15 years as a result of that.
Know and then I came back.
My parents split up at some point along the way there.
And I came back with my dad.
He's like, Well, why don't we go hunting?
And since then, I've just been stuck in the outdoors.
Now I've gotten myself licensed as a guide.
I go out twice a year to take out hunters professionally.
And my dad has an outfitting area now in BC.
And we spend as much time as we humanly possibly can in the outdoors.
So, yeah, it's to say firearms are a part of that is a pretty small understatement.
It's part of my job.
It's part of what I love, you know, and it's literally for self-protection too.
Both my father and I are in the process now.
We're going to, I think we're going to try and get our authorization to carry from when we're working on the outfit because the bears are crazy, man.
Like sometimes they, when they're wounded and stuff, and you never know, especially when you have a client there and it's in thick brush and it's just hard to handle a rifle, you know, in certain instances.
And most of the time, you can use a rifle, most of the time.
But there are, I've had two instances now where I really thought, geez, I wish I had a pistol right now.
You know, and you don't really want to wish you had a pistol when there's a bear in front of your face, right?
So, yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
Why Isn't Somebody Doing Something?00:14:22
And then I started to notice all the things that Trudeau, the liberals, it's not just firearms.
You know, they really have been up to some nefarious stuff.
And I said, I was looking around, so why isn't somebody doing something?
Where's our politicians?
Where's our leaders?
Why isn't somebody stopping this?
It's crazy.
And then you think, well, can't get any crazier.
And then you look in the news the next day and it's 10 times as crazy, you know.
So at that point, I was like, somebody's got to say something.
And here I am.
Now I'm online doing what I can to throw a monkey wrench in every liberal plan I can see and stand up for peaceful law-abiding gun owners across this country.
Because if we preserve our rights, we're actually going to be preserving everyone's rights, whether they realize it or not, even the folks who don't own firearms.
You don't want to give up your right.
Like, just because, say, I have no plan to exercise my right to gay marriage doesn't want to doesn't mean I want to ban it, right?
I want to make sure that people have the options for their lifestyle.
They can do whatever they want, as long as it doesn't harm me.
And I would like the same thing in return.
And we're not seeing that anymore from the other side of the political spectrum.
They are out to eradicate anyone who disagrees, is what it seems like to me.
So hopefully soon we can get Canada back on that unified path to peaceful, free, tolerant, and kind and polite people again.
And that's what we saw at the Integrity March, I think.
You know, I love that idea that, and you see it a lot on the right.
And, you know, I hate to make property rights a left-right issue, but as it turns out, it seems to be that way.
When you see these sorts of things happening, these slow creep of the government into your life, you know, there comes a time where you say, well, at first you say, well, why isn't somebody doing something about this?
And then you think, well, why not me?
Like, why?
Well, I know what I'm talking about.
I don't need to be a fancy politician.
I don't need a fancy studio to do these things.
I have a computer.
I have a cell phone.
Why can't I be the one telling the other side of the story?
So I love that about how you came into sort of being an online activist.
Like moving from hunting guide to online activists is sort of the same trajectory as moving from being a farm wife to a citizen journalist like me.
It's funny how many people took that same trajectory.
Now, long before, sorry, go ahead.
I'll interrupt you there.
Yeah, please.
When the knife's to your throat, Sheila, what do you do?
Ask for help or do you push the arm away, right?
It's really what it is.
The knife is at our throat in many respects right now in this country.
And, you know, my dad and I, my dad, he like, he is, he's a character, to say the least.
And, you know, he, he's like, he's like, what are you doing online?
He's like, you're activist now.
I hate activists.
He said, I said, dad, like, we're not going to be able to hunt soon unless we do something here.
You know, and then I started, we started what we're doing right now is we're working on a show in the background.
It's going to be Yukon Strong, the show.
And we're just going to be recording our adventures in the wilderness.
We have, I would say, maybe 25% of the first season done already.
And it's going to be great.
And now he's all into it.
He's like, yeah.
And I'm like, we can have a section if you want where you can just say whatever you want.
He's like, I can talk about Donald Trump.
I said, sure, if you want, you know, I don't care.
Like, he, he, he can, he, he's, he's now he's the same thing that happened to me is is happening to him, I think.
So everybody's got to get involved in here.
Like we saw the last election, you know, the conservatives, they won the majority vote, which means we still have the silent majority out there, but we need them to become a vocal minority now, like they did in Ottawa last weekend.
That was just fantastic to see so many good people together.
Like it was awesome.
We'll talk about the integrity march in a second because I'm still sort of riding high from being with that many people who care about, again, I say property rights because there were a lot of people there who were like, I don't own a gun, but I respect your right to have one and be a legal firearms owner.
You're vetted every single day.
Why are you the problem?
I want police resources spent somewhere else.
So I thought that was great because there was a strong contingent of those people in the crowd.
But I was reading your article in the post-millennial that you wrote, I guess it was back in January of 2020.
So five months before the ordering council that banned 1,500 popular models of rifles and shotguns.
And, you know, they continue to shoehorn more models into there every single day.
But you, the story of that article is that you were actually quite reluctant to have to become this advocate for the firearms owning community.
But Justin Trudeau forced you to be one.
Yeah, like, I don't want, like, don't get me wrong.
It was fun to meet all the people out there.
And I've made, I was actually thinking about this last night because I was like, okay, I don't, I don't want to get involved in this.
It's exhausting.
You have to, like, I feel like I have the same fight a thousand times with the same people.
Like, there's a real, there's a real, you know, you know what it is, is the folks on the other side of this argument, they're starved intellectually for statistics, data, and new arguments, new justifications for their narrative.
So you just get these people that just keep repeating things.
And it's like they're literally any argument they make, we have an answer for it and we have the data for it.
There's very few instances where they can be like, yeah, we got you, you know?
Yeah.
But now I'm starting to also feel like I made so many new friends this weekend.
You know, like it has brought some positivity into my world too, you know.
But it is, it's exhausting.
Like I do everything myself.
Like I have to make my videos.
Like the whole flight home, I was so tired on the way home.
just wanted to sleep and I had to make videos the whole time and you know it's it's it's a lot of work you know and you have to be monitoring things to make sure you're on top of situations and it's mentally draining and there's a lot of negativity Like people are attacking you.
People are saying completely horrible things that they would never ever say to your face, you know?
And at the end of the day, I just want to, I just want to go out hunting.
I just want to, I just want to live my life in peace.
And, you know, I'll be honest, probably if we can secure gun rights and property in this country, you know, get a change in government, I'm going to ease off the gas pedal like a thousand percent and go back to enjoying my life.
I just, right now I understand that people need to step up wherever they can.
We need as many voices as we can get.
So I got to do what I can.
Well, firearms owners like me, I'm grateful for the work that you do.
But when you, it's true, when you point out the like the lack of an intellectual argument from the other side, the one that I hear the most is, what do you need an assault weapon for?
As though these things that are being banned are assault weapons.
But, you know, like that's the one thing that they, that, that for me, I think is the one prevailing argument.
What do you need assault weapons for?
And my answer to that is, it's not up to the government to tell me what I need because I don't even have to need this.
I can just want it and that's good enough.
But secondarily, they're not assault weapons to start with.
So it's almost as though there is this wall of ignorance that I think for some people, it doesn't matter the facts and statistics.
We're never going to break through it.
They're true believers.
It's like a religion.
But on the other side, there are people who that we may never hear from.
We may never ever hear from them.
But when we say to them, did you know that assault weapons have been banned for decades?
Did you know that Justin Trudeau is just using that term to play on the fact that you don't have that information and he doesn't want you to have that information?
I think there are people out there who their eyes do get opened up to these sorts of things.
And so I guess it gives me hope to fight on.
Well, you know, wow, there's a lot to unpack there.
So sorry.
It's okay.
No, it's all right.
So let's look.
So let's start with what you said at the beginning there.
You said, why do you need an assault weapon?
What an inflammatory statement, right?
Yeah.
So many levels.
So first of all, who gives you the right to determine what anyone owns in this country, you know, period?
You know, just because you are uncomfortable with my lifestyle doesn't give you the right to try and eradicate it.
And that's what we're talking about.
It's a form of discrimination.
Number two, you know, I would suggest that the idea for, you know, why does somebody need an assault weapon?
Well, if there's a mortal threat that exists in this society to the point that police need to be armed in public, they need to carry a firearm in order to protect themselves and society around them, then I would put forth that same danger exists for every single Canadian.
Okay.
So really what we're not talking about is whether or not there's justification for lethal, the ability for lethal defense in this country.
What we're talking about is just the manner in which it's okay.
You think it's okay for some people to do it.
You don't think it's okay for me to do it.
You think it's okay for this person to do it while calling to defund the police, head scratcher, you know.
But at the end of the day, what separates me from law enforcement?
What is it?
It's simply training.
They get trained to de-escalate situations and make sure that they can understand when use of force is appropriate, etc.
But the bottom line is there's folks out there trying to do really nasty stuff to everyone they can 24-7, and they will get away with it if they can.
And the police cannot be everywhere all the time.
We're seeing them like all over the world right now being overwhelmed with just with political unrest, never mind criminal or homicidal intent, right?
And then finally, the last piece of your argument there, yeah, assault weapons, it's not a real term.
It's slang, right?
This was made up by media, politicians, and anti-gun activists.
Now, to be fair, and I'm interested in having a fair discussion.
I would say that an assault rifle is a real thing.
You know, for instance, the Schurmgewehr 44 that was made during World War II by Hitler and the Nazis.
And the rumor is Hitler named it himself, right?
And it literally translates to assault rifle because he wanted to give his troops, you know, confidence that they had this new sort of super weapon or something.
And then they wanted to frighten their opponents, right?
So it makes you really think about it: like, why are these folks, these supposedly peaceful folks, using Nazi propaganda to push their agenda in 2020, you know?
And at the end of the day, like you said, 1977, Bill C-51, and if Pauli Sasuviant is out there watching this, I suspect they are.
They've been really on my back the last little while, trying to, I don't even know, you know.
They released a document.
I have the PDF, okay, where they define and a quote-unquote an assault weapon as a select fire rifle capable of automatic fire.
And those guns were banned in 1977, period.
Period.
They're not accessible.
They're not available for purchase.
The only people who have access to them are military and law enforcement and an extremely, extremely tiny group of grandfathered in people who can't use them, can't transport them, they can't do anything with them.
They're locked in their safe and can't go anywhere.
So when I hear Trudeau and Bill Blair go on and on about military style this and assault weapon that, it's like you're talking about banning a unicorn.
You guys, like we're trying to save lives, right?
Like we don't, I don't want, okay, I don't want to have people getting shot because I don't want violence in my society.
Canada is like the most peaceful place in the world.
But I also don't want people having these incidents, you know, because then it gets blamed onto me.
They attempt to assign class guilt and label me as a monster.
You know, so I legitimately want to solve this problem because it's causing serious problems in my life.
Pretending in a Foreign Country00:02:23
Okay.
And, You know, when they use those terms, we can't.
We're not even being honest.
And when you start the foundation of an argument with dishonesty, the conclusions that you arrive from that discussion are going to be equally false.
It's all just, like I said, you're talking about banning unicorns.
You can't do it.
So at the end of the day, what we're looking at here is Blair and friends trying to drive Canadians politically using fear.
And that's why they attempt to change language to redefine definitions and make people, you know, believe in things that aren't real.
Because when you change how somebody thinks about something, you also change how they feel about it.
And we can do an experiment on that if you'd like.
I could do it on you right now.
Sure.
Okay.
So let's pretend that we're in a foreign country.
Let's pretend, I don't know, we're in Europe somewhere and we're neighboring countries and we speak different languages.
But in your country, we have masculine and feminine pronouns like French, for instance.
And we'll use a tree as an example.
So in your country, a tree is a masculine pronoun.
So when you look at that tree, you say, okay, well, it's big, it's strong, you know, it's stoic, I don't know, whatever you, whatever the word masculine brings to your mind, right?
But in my country, well, that tree is feminine, okay?
So already, because we've changed the words in our language, we have different feelings about an object.
Okay.
So now this is now you see why they're trying to push this term assault weapon because it invokes fear in people who don't know about it.
It invokes a mental image that they've seen in a movie or something, and then that drives them politically.
And they don't just do it on guns, they do it on everything.
You know, it's not a carbon tax, it's a price on pollution.
You know, like they do it on so many different issues.
Emotional Manipulation Tactics00:15:06
And once you catch on to it, you're like, whoa, okay, this is kind of like, it is a form of brainwashing, I guess.
Well, maybe not brainwashing, but it's emotional manipulation.
That's what it is.
And Canadians are, we're a kind of people.
We're a friendly people.
We're a compassionate people.
So it makes us targets for that because generally we want to help.
We generally want to do good, no matter what side of the political spectrum we're on.
And yeah, when you read an article and it makes you feel afraid, or you read an article, it makes you feel angry or sympathetic or sad or outraged.
Yeah, now you're thinking, well, I'm going to get rid of this guy and I'm going to vote for that.
And, you know, here we are divided.
Our country in five years was a wonderful, peaceful place.
And now we're at each other's throats about everything, it seems.
It's absurd.
What a wonderful segue, though, into the integrity march because CBC redefined the term thousands to mean hundreds in their coverage of what happened at the Integrity March.
It was the largest pro-firearms rights rally since the late 90s, since the long gun registry was brought in.
And yet, the mainstream media did everything they could to downplay just the sheer size of the event and I think the normalcy of everybody there.
But you were there, so tell me what you think.
Okay, well, because I'm going to once again try and be fair.
You know, I was caught off guard by the amount of people.
So I was like, well, we need a thousand people.
That's what Rod was thinking.
And the night before, I'm like, oh my gosh, what if nobody comes?
I was scared.
But then I went out for a walk that night and I just walked down Spark Street and there's a whole whack of people.
Like every bar was taken over by the CCFR sitting on the patio.
They're like, Yukon, what are you doing here?
And I was like, okay, so there's going to be a few people here, I thought.
And then I'm like, well, and I'm like, where'd you guys fly in from?
Oh, BC, whatever, you know.
And so I'm like, well, for every one person who flew in from BC, you know, or Alberta, you know, there's going to be 10 people probably coming from, you know, an hour away, right?
So clearly there was a hunger to have our voice heard, you know.
And there at first, when I first showed up, because we came early, I was, I walked up with Tracy and there was like, there, there was about 800 people there, right?
But that was at like 1230 or something, you know.
And it just kept filling and filling up.
And really the biggest group of people came right at 1 p.m.
And if Tracy and Rod, if you're out there watching this, if you're organizing the next one, what I would suggest is that like the crowd, it moves really slow.
Like by the time you give an order at the front, you know, it's 15 minutes behind.
So, you know, even at the end, when I was recording the procession, they were like wrapping things up on the hill.
And there were still hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people coming like every minute, you know?
So I didn't realize how many people were there.
Like I was like, this has got to be a thousand people at least.
And then, you know, I recorded the procession.
You can see it on my YouTube channel.
I ran out of batteries.
I couldn't even record to the end.
So, yeah, there was quite a few people there.
And the insistence of the anti-gun folks and the establishment media to try and discredit this, it's just really juvenile.
You know, it really is.
Like, you can go, like, go watch my video.
There's no way it's 800 people.
Like, maybe, I would say it's probably like in the video, it's probably 400 people a minute, you know, something like that would be kind of realistic.
They're lined up about 10 people across and they're just coming, you know, coming.
So I don't know.
I don't care to count it and whatever, but it just shows you, again, how they're trying to emotionally manipulate Canadians.
They're trying to make it, oh, these guys weren't there.
And the majority of people feel like this on that issue.
And it's just, you know, CBC in particular, they are a public funded company.
They have a mandate to represent all Canadians.
The fact that the establishment media and the anti-gun folks online are behaving in a very juvenile fashion to try and, you know, discredit the amount of people out there who showed up to the Integrity March.
It's really indicative of what they're doing because they portray without question online that they have the overwhelming amount of support, you know.
But if you look at, there's like a handful of anti-gun groups in Canada.
They have, you know, a few die-hard followers on social media that post sort of the same stuff over and over again and really vindictive.
Like They're extremists, you know, and that's fine.
That's their right.
It's a free country.
And many of these folks, you know, they definitely scare me a little bit in the sense that they're going off and on, or sorry, on and on about the threat that I'm supposed to be.
But, you know, they're worried that they're losing control of this narrative.
We see this issue, for instance, in energy development.
You can go look on YouTube.
There's people who have like entire businesses that are formed about inventing a fake online support for whatever the issue of the day is to try and bully a company into change.
And I think that's pretty much the tactic that these people are using because they tried to have a protest last year and it was like, it was literally 20 people at one.
There was like three people at another one.
I think in Toronto, like the heart of their support, they got like 100 people.
We have thousands, thousands and thousands of people online, thousands and thousands of people willing to fly across the country to talk about this.
We have, I think, not only the first and the second now largest e-petitions in Canadian parliamentary history.
Okay.
And these are verified.
You know, there's no monkey business about this.
These are people and these are Canadians.
And if you, I see some of these groups, they put up things like, oh, we had 5,000, 100,000 signature in a petition 30 years ago.
Well, great.
So have, let's see your petition now.
You know, times change, support for issues change.
And there is a hunger right now for civil liberties in this country because the Trudeau liberals are, it's like you're having like a thousand mosquitoes in your face on every single thing.
It's like, screw off.
Just go away.
You know, like, like, go, you guys can have whatever you want to have.
You can do all this stuff and run the country.
You can waste millions of dollars.
That's our democracy.
I hate it, but leave me alone.
Like, why are you threatening me with jail time right now?
What other demographic in this country is being criminally targeted by the government?
Imagine if the government was like, okay, well, if you're going to be protesting, I don't know, climate change or whatever.
Yeah, we're going to label you as horrible monsters.
And by the way, we're going to ban your electric car and it can sit in your driveway.
You can't sell it.
You can't drive it.
And we'll maybe pay you, I don't know, 25% what it's worth with your own money, by the way, in a couple of years when we kind of figure out what we're doing with this.
And that's just from a private perspective.
Think about businesses that are involved in this.
They got like millions of dollars in freaking inventory that they have to sit on during a pandemic.
Like people need cash right now, Mr. Trudeau.
You're handing it out like candy, apparently, because people are so desperate.
And, you know, meanwhile, what do you do to the gun shops?
Little mom and pops shops that have been doing this for years.
You take a massive chunk of their capital, their assets, and just lock it.
Like, why wouldn't a gun dealership be able to, you know, at least sell the remaining stock that they have?
You know, like, that would be at least reasonable.
You know, I don't know.
There's so many aspects that we can get into with the ban itself, if you like, but um go ahead.
Sorry, I wanted to ask you, with you know, 200, well, nearly 231,000 people signing that last e-petition sponsored by Michelle Rempel, and then with 5,000, I would suggest 5,000 plus people on Parliament Hill.
I mean, for me, I stood there and I filmed everybody coming off the square 15 minutes to get everybody off the square, people flying from all over the country.
Do you think that the momentum is shifting?
Because I know for probably the last 15 or 20 years, the gun rights community, they were there, but they sort of had a friend in Stephen Harper when Harper was in charge and he did kill the gun registry.
But they were kind of quiet because, you know, we do still have a culture of confiscation.
If you talk about the guns you have, then the government knows the guns you have.
And, you know, confiscations have happened in the past.
They do arbitrarily just reclassify things overnight.
The CZ858 is a good recent example of that.
Do you think that there's a cultural change now where Canadian gun owners are saying, like, I have to speak up now, and I have to be loud, I have to be proud.
No more of this silence.
Do you think that that's happening?
That's kind of the sense that I'm getting.
Yeah.
Well, the thing with the Harper government is, yeah, he rolled back the registry that nobody was using.
But they actually was pretty funny because I remember my mom and my dad were fighting about it.
He's like, I'm not registering nothing.
And I think my mom, she was scared that the police were going to come and whatever.
And she went out and registered a bunch of his guns.
I can't even remember what happened.
Well, that's why they're divorced now.
That's correct.
Yeah.
But at the end of the day, you know, I think for me with Harper, he just didn't go far enough.
He left it as kind of an ambiguous thing.
And I recall there was a vote, I think it was at the 2013 leadership conference to maybe start doing something, you know, a rewrite of the Firearms Act or something.
And it almost passed.
It was very close, but it didn't go through.
And then, you know, that's what happens now with the left.
If you give them any sort of opening, any sort of precedent, they are going to just come for every single thing they can and then go way past, you know, equality or whatever.
They're going to go to entitlement and then intolerance.
So moving forward now, I think gun owners, we are much more aware that a more permanent solution is required, that it will maintain constant or will, sorry, it will require constant maintenance of our rights, of our message, and that standing around hoping that, you know, the Stephen Harpers or Aaron O'Toole's of the world are going to save you, probably not a good idea.
You got to get out there and make it clear to all political parties that if you're going to mess with guns, then you're going to probably suffer some political consequences.
And I would suggest the singular best way for every gun owner out there to combat this problem is to get more people involved in firearms.
If all of us just get one new person licensed this year, introduce them to this wonderful sport, our numbers double and we will almost be 10% of the population.
That is too large of a demographic for any political party to ignore.
And particularly in Ontario, you know, I was thinking about it.
Like, I could get, well, I have.
I've gotten lots of people that are RPAL up here in the Yukon, but at the end of the day, we're only one seat, right?
So it doesn't help that much.
But in the GTA, you guys, if you start getting kids and particularly women into shooting stuff, like they'll be hooked instantly.
And then all of a sudden, you got a whole whack of people, right, in the heart of the districts that decide the electoral outcome, more or less, of the country.
It's not a good idea for anyone.
They'll just be like, we'll just leave it alone.
Right.
So get more people involved.
Get online.
There's a lot of, like, one thing I'm really proud of these days with the gun community is it, like, if you look, especially on Twitter, you'll see like some anti-gun guy or girl will come along and be like, blah, You're crazy.
Why don't you move to the United States?
And within seconds, within seconds, there'll be like five accounts saying, well, no, no, that's not how the laws are here.
And this is that.
And that's a really extreme attitude.
You know, like we have the facts.
Like, it's like, I go there, I'm like, oh, geez, I better say something.
And then I look too late.
Somebody's already responded.
Like they're all over it.
So, and these are just, they're folks like me and you.
They're just out there trying to get the truth out because these people have been so misinformed.
Yeah, we are a normal.
I wanted to give you a chance because I, like I just said off camera, I could probably talk to you all day.
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And I know that you have stuff to do and I have stuff to do.
But I want to give you a chance to tell maybe some of the people who you are kind of new to, how they can find you, and more importantly, how they can continue to support the work that you're doing out there, fighting for freedom, fighting for property rights, and fighting for gun owners like me, families like mine.
Well, I just, I'm mainly on Twitter, but I got a YouTube channel.
I'm trying to, actually, that's how people can help.
If they can follow me, follow me on YouTube, because I can't seem to get as many followers on there as I can on Twitter.
And I do have a Facebook too, but my Facebook is more, I just sort of put stuff that's on my Twitter and my YouTube.
I just put it there.
So if you could give me a follow, it's Yukon Strong on, just look up Yukon Strong on social media.
You'll find me.
It doesn't matter which one.
And I also have a podcast I'm starting.
I keep having life-altering delays that are screwing me up.
I have actually have an episode right now that I haven't released in like a month.
I'm just sitting on it because I've been so lazy to edit it with all this other stuff.
But yeah, maybe check out my podcast and keep your eyes peeled on the horizon because eventually I'm going to be releasing just a small TV series.
I don't know if it's going to go on TV, but I'll for sure release it online.
And it's going to have really great content for the hunting community, for the firearms community.
And it's going to give everyone a glimpse into my real world.
I've shown a few people now and they're just blown away.
They really, really think it's great.
And I can't wait for that.
It's going to be a while yet.
But, you know, as for doing what every person can do, just listen, engage.
Don't be one of the people saying, oh, I'm going to let someone else handle it.
Like, I have a suspicion that the CCFR is going to have another integrity march here.
And the next one will be a big one because now people say, okay, it was a lot of fun.
It was really positive.
And a whole whack of people showed up.
And I wish I came.
Like, that's, that's where a lot of people are at right now, the comments that I'm reading.
So I hope they do it, not right away, but maybe like early next summer.
And that would be huge.
Like, I think we'll get double, triple the turnout probably is very realistic.
So be willing to stand up.
And you can go watch on my YouTube channel.
I made a video of the march.
It was, guys, it was really a lot of fun.
Like, all the protesting stuff aside, it was so cool to meet so many awesome people.
And I just keep hearing that.
You've been saying that.
Andrew Lawton says that.
Tracy Wilson, Rod, they all say it, you know, just to finally meet so many good Canadians and prove definitively that there are good Canadians there.
The people who really represent, I think, what Canada is about from all creeds, all colors were there.
Children, women, everyone is welcome.
Do not worry about any sort of intimidation or anything whatsoever.
People will just be giving you hugs the minute you arrive.
We're a very welcoming group.
Well, DJ, I want to thank you for coming on the show today.
And I want to ask you to please come back on the show again very, very soon.
And please let me know when your little TV show goes live because I'm kind of excited about that just as an avid outdoor show watcher.
And I think our people would really like to see you have some great success with that.
So thank you again for coming on the show.
Thank you.
It was really awesome to be here, Sheila.
Thanks.
Is such a great, calm, reasonable spokesperson for the pro firearms rights movement in Canada.
Exactly the kind of person we need up front.
And the CCFR, well, they're taking the government to court to fight the gun ban.
And I wish them the very best of luck.
And as a side note, our law enforcement officers, many of whom are firearms enthusiasts themselves, are already stretched thin.
They're under attack from social justice warriors on one side and gangs on the other.
Our cops should not be put in this new, unwarranted, adversarial position with their sports shooting friends and neighbors when most police officers I know got into policing to put the actual bad guys in jail.