DIYbanter - View Single Post - O/T: GUN CONFISCATION IN CANADA! (fixed broken link)

Mike Marlow[_2_]

wrote:

Understand, I'm not condoning police breaking into homes without
warrants on any account, but in the case of firearms, I can understand
their thinking. If I was a cop, I'd want as few guns available for
theft as possible.

I don't know what Canadian law allows LEO's to do, but here, the "wants" of
a police agency do not constitute probable cause. (Not to say that it
doesn't happen under the cloak of some trumped up reason...). The thought
that has circled around in my mind as this thing has become public is that
if the RCMP was so very concerned for looting, then shouldn't they have
better spent their energies patroling in various ways, to prevent looting of
all sorts, rather than the approach they decided upon?

For all you Americans, understand that this is Canada. We don't have a
second amendment and we don't have the gun culture that you do. We all
didn't grow up with guns available most everywhere and most of us
don't subscribe to the notion that we should all be armed.

It sees that is true in the metro areas, or maybe in the eastern part of the
country, but is it the same in the remote regions?

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-Mike-