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

[iverglas]

80. there's no point there

I was explaining that a US citizen really cannot just get up and leave the country and reside elsewhere, no matter how many people tell them to "love it or leave it".

To do that, the person has to have somewhere else to reside. And virtually every country in the world has restrictions on who is allowed to take up residence there. Many in the US do seem to have the idea that they could just "move to Canada" (or some other places) if they wanted, however.

I was also implying that an awful lot of USAmericans would choose to move to Canada if given the choice, i.e. so many that we'd be eaten out of house and home. (One of my consul buddies in the southeastern US used to tell me about elderly couples coming to his office with their applications, because they'd heard about our health plan, and having used up their lifetime medicare or some such, were desperate. That is just so sad.)

This had nothing to do with whose immigration rules were more restrictive than who else's, or who was or was not entitled to regulate immigration into their country. Nothing.

So I have no idea why you would say "so then, just as Canada is entitled to make restrictions so is USA" and say you had made a point, because the entitlement of the US to regulate immigration was simply not in issue at all, whatsoever, in any way, shape or form.