Specifically, Rule 2 needs to change.

I’m a big believer that crimes which have no victim or no property damage/conversion should not be crimes. This includes the entire Firearms Act and a good chunk of the Criminal Code Part 3 statutes which deal with firearms.

All following these types of laws accomplishes is signalling to the government that we want more of these bullshit laws.

Not only that, overly restrictive laws don’t get removed/changed by people stringently following them all the time. Making a rule against posting about breaking these administrative-type laws is as intellectually dishonest as saying that people shouldn’t have talked about Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus. Gay people were fucking long before homosexual acts were legal, people smoked tons of weed before it was legalized, people drank during Prohibition.

There’s no reason to restrict posting safe, responsible firearm use regardless of if the firearm in question is legal or not. In fact, it’ll have the opposite affect: if people see that these nothing bad comes out of safe firearm usage they won’t care as much about restricting that (yes you won’t change the minds of the extremists but they want all the guns gone anyways; those few are a lost cause).

Quite honestly, if this rule isn’t changed then I don’t see any reason to be here instead of on Reddit and I will probably won’t participate here altogether because Lemmy is even more of a leftist hellhole than Reddit it.