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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent proposal to freeze the handgun market in response to violence in Canada and the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Trudeau proposed a freeze on the buying, selling and transferring over the roughly 1 million handguns in Canada on Monday.
Carlson criticized Trudeau for using the deadly shooting at the school for his own “power grab.”
“Justin Trudeau wasted no time in using the tragedy in the U.S. to his own political advantage in Canada,” Carlson said on his show Tuesday night. “Now, Uvalde is more than 2,000 miles from Ottawa, but because of what [school shooter] Salvador Ramos was allowed to do in Texas, Canadians are no longer allowed to protect themselves.”
Read: Trudeau proposes total ban on handgun sales and transfers in Canada
Though “handguns were not the cause of the shooting in Uvalde … Justin Trudeau is using that tragedy to disarm anyone who disagrees with him,” Carlson said.
He warned about the “red flag” proposal that allows courts to “confiscate guns from people if they’ve not committed a crime.”
After playing a clip from the press conference, Carlson said that Trudeau fears the resentment of his own citizens.
“What’s actually happening here is that people like Justin Trudeau know that their rule is illegitimate. They know perfectly well how resented they are, and they spend an awful lot of time thinking about civil unrest,” the Fox News host said. “You probably don’t. You live in a democracy, so you don’t imagine that anyone needs to be disarmed for political reasons, but people like Justin Trudeau can feel the deep resentment aimed at them.”
This is why leaders like the Canadian prime minister and others are “fully intent on disarming the population.”
Carlson challenged Trudeau to answer if he will be giving up his own armed bodyguards. “That’s always the first and most important step of sincerity,” the Fox News host said.
He reached out to the Prime Minister’s Office to ask if Trudeau’s security detail would be giving up their firearms, but a spokesperson declined to comment.
Carlson criticized President Joe Biden’s similar calls for gun control while having armed security.
President Biden suggested a ban on 9mm handguns, but the White House later walked back his comments.
“People use them to protect their families, and if you take them away Americans will no longer be able to defend themselves in the middle of a crime wave,” Carlson said.
The crime wave was “was wholly manufactured by the same people who are trying to strip your guns from you” but that is “the point.” He again referred to the gun control push as a “power grab” that exempts the same people pushing for gun limits.
