BF2S Forums anti-gun hysteria in Canada

Turquoise wrote:

I have a feeling that Canada will eventually loosen up its gun laws.  They're reaching a population size where the current restrictions just aren't practical anymore.

Also, it's pretty shortsighted to heavily restrict handguns when you live right next door to one of the biggest manufacturers of guns.

Another thing to consider is that Canada's violent crime would not likely go up with more guns because they don't have the same kind of poverty issues we have.

I don't want to make this a race issue, but honestly, the majority of gun related deaths in America involve black people killing black people.  Canada has ghettoes just like America, but they aren't nearly as violent as ours in most cases.  I don't think that has to do with guns, but rather, cultural differences.

So, more guns in Canada probably won't equal more crime or more murder.

krazed wrote:

yeah but we can't arrest them, it would be bad for publicity and the mayors might not get re elected

Cybargs wrote:

Most of Canada's drug and gang crime is caused by middle class Iranian and Chinese immigrants lol.

Police tried for hours Monday to contact a teenager believed to be holed up in a Dart­mouth apartment with a handgun.

But when they broke down the door, they found no one inside.

“They were just clearing the apartment while at the same time the youth in ques­tion actually contacted his parents and ad­vised that he was at another location," Theresa Rath, spokeswoman for Halifax Regional Police, said Monday night.

“Officers made arrangements to go meet him on Caledonia Road and he is in custo­dy. " Police were called to the eight-level apartment building at the end of Churchill Court, a small cul-de-sac off Roleika Drive, at 3:50 p.m.

A woman, described only as a family friend, called police to say she had gone to an apartment on the fifth floor and seen a 16-year-old boy with a handgun. Officers arrived and soon called in the emergency response team and crisis negotiators to try to speak with the teenager. They also be­gan evacuating nearby apartments on the fifth floor and those directly above and be­low the unit.

Daniel Lepage and Shannon Davidson share a balcony with the apartment police had surrounded. The only thing that sep­arates them from the other side of the bal­cony is “a little wall you could hop right over," Lepage said.

They said they heard nothing before po­lice showed up at their door.

“They just asked us how many people were inside, told us they had a situation next door and they just asked us to go downstairs," Lepage said.

The pair waited on the street in a friend’s car, watching with the hordes of people who had come to see why almost a dozen police vehicles were around the building.

“This is definitely out of the ordinary. Even for Churchill," Lepage said.

Early in the evening, Rath said, police “actually witnessed the youth in question on the balcony of (the) apartment," and they also had “information to suggest it was him on (the) balcony. He did go back in­side the apartment."

But officers received conflicting infor­mation — some people told them he was still in the apartment and others said he was long gone.

Officers entered the apartment at 7:45 p.m. and found a pellet gun, which in­vestigators believe is the gun the woman spotted when she came to the door.

At 7:50 p.m., the boy called his parents on their cellphone, Rath said. Minutes later, a man and a woman, believed to be the boy’s parents, walked out of the building’s front doors with officers to a waiting police vehi­cle and were driven away.

“He was fearing meeting police, but we went with his parents and police officers" to an undisclosed location on Caledonia Road where the boy was arrested, Rath said.

It turns out that the pellet gun “was nev­er used in a threatening manner," Rath said. But, she said, “the woman did fear for her safety. She felt that it was a handgun" and she called police.

The boy was released shortly after 9 p.m. without charges. Rath said his parents re­linquished the pellet gun to police for de­str uction.

Police don’t know why the teen waited so long to tell his parents where he was.

“We wish he’d done it sooner because it would’ve allowed us to clear this up a lot sooner," Rath said. “But we’re just glad it has ended peacefully."

Last edited by mcgid1 (2010-03-24 20:50:26)

article wrote:

Police arrest Saanich man after backyard target practice with replica assault rifle

“Quite rightly, our officers approached with caution and with their firearms, their real firearms, drawn,” said Saanich police officer Sgt. Dean Jantzen.

Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Polic … z0tSEHKhJv

article wrote:

Saanich police responded to a caller who saw men firing off rounds from what appeared to be an assault rifle at about 4 p.m.

article wrote:

Police took the man into custody without further incident and seized several more rifles of similar quality. No charges have been laid but police continue to investigate.

article wrote:

Many police organizations, including the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, have called for laws restricting replica guns for the safety and the public and police.

krazed wrote:

Karbin wrote:

Krazed.
There IS a ban on ALL replica guns in Canada.
There have been LOTS of questions, in the Courts, about airsoft and even paintball markers.
Remember, I had a visit from the ETF for cleaning a paintball marker (WPG type) in my back yard.

how are these getting across the border if they're replicas?

http://www.rap4.com/paintball/os/marker … _1109.html

i know they get here, because i have one!

also

poorly written garbage wrote:

Most replicas cannot discharge
projectiles at all, or only discharge projectiles that cannot cause serious harm. Devices that discharge
projectiles that can cause serious bodily injury are not replicas.

continued lower on the page

Other devices, including some air guns, starter pistols and model guns, are much harder to classify.
Although they may not be firearms for purposes of licensing and registration, they are not necessarily
replicas either.

and just because an asshole called them on you doesn't make it illegal... my neighbour did that to me because i walked to my shed with a rifle STOCK.... yes just the wooden stock. am i now to believe, based on that experience, that my rifle stock is a prohibited device?

Last edited by Karbin (2010-07-13 14:29:21)