Canada bans .22 rifle because it looks similar to an AK-47

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35. Canada is not a totalitarian state.

Also, I haven't read 1984 in over a decade, but I'm looking at again now I remain fascinated from this passage near your quotation:

Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1

Good thing we have all these people who want to carry weapons near our elected officials and wage war against government because they don't like democratically agreed decisions.

That's how you get to 1984, a fragmented, stupidly launched, half-ass revolution. That's why the French Revolution failed and ours succeeded, because the French lacked moderation and the Americans *had* it in plenty, and even when anarchy threatened did not bow to such pressures for another revolution i.e. the Jay Treaty debacle.



Good government is great.