I actually believe this. I believe people are both more ignorant and petty than even you or I can imagine. I also think that people can be persuaded. Make people think that these ideas were something they came up.
But the point of this is literally don't let perfect be the enemy of good. There's a rather large subset of the population that hears "oh no animals products at all? Forget that." And they commit to no animal product reduction at all. So then the question is harm no animals, or harm less animals?
Hey so i can go buy a rifle right now. If you mean fully automatic rifles? Yeah you're going to want to get those from Canadian forces along with some proper fucking training. Most Canadians will be better used on logistics and other tasks anyways. We don't need Captain Canuck firing at the wrong fucking side accidentally.
I think that if this does go down, any American who does fight for Canada should get Canadian citizenship with all the benefits that entails (healthcare).
The numbers are so high now they've started to losing meaning. For reference I live in Calgary Alberta and Russia is approaching having lost the equivalent of everyone in this city dying.
The politicians can do whatever they want. Asymmetric warfare doesn't care. I can tell you right now if the US invades Canada we will absolutely be able to easily sabotage the heavy crude export pipelines and upstream collection capabilities to cripple US refineries..
I wouldn't be surprised to see Venezuelans doing the same to keep the oil out of American hands.
So I looked into it, last Canadian school shooting with mass casualties was 2016. We are not infallible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_Canada