Canada is slowly turning into a police state, where only government officials will have the right to be armed. The first thing tyrannical governments do is disarm the citizenry. Cripes, the RCMP couldn’t even protect Jean Chrétien at 24 Sussex, where they have a permanent presence. The little guy from Shawinigan, famous for his handshake, was ready to defend himself with an Inuit statue. Talk about cultural appropriation. Remember the hoopla when Harper suggested that rural folk have the right to defend themselves? What the anti-gun maroons fail to understand is that criminals, by definition, don’t obey the law.
One of the reasons that there are so few burglaries where I live, is that criminals know that most rural folk are hunters and therefore armed. And so are our neighbours. It acts as a form of deterrence. Indeed, anyone thinking of burgling round here, would quickly find they have what my buddy calls a “lead deficiency.”
Lorne Gunter:
If rural landowners followed the RCMP’s recommendations about break-ins on their property, they would be sitting ducks.
Mounties want farmers, ranchers and acreage owners to do nothing. Call them, then sit back and let them catch the bad guys. Except, of course, in rural areas it’s often hard for police to get to the scene of a crime in time to do anything about it.