Reply With QuoteOMG that's funny!! Aggressive questioning by locals about the stampede!! What a hoot!! LMAO Poor scared, insane Americans...I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't so stupid. Makes me ashamed. Thanks for the post :0)
Canadians mock U.S. tourist RE: gun
Canadians mock U.S. tourist who complained about not being able to carry a gun Friday, August 10, 2012 15:03 EDT
Canadians this week ridiculed a nervous American tourist over his criticisms of Canada’s strict gun laws following what he said was “menacing” encounter with two young men in a Calgary park.
Walt Wawra of Kalamazoo, Michigan detailed his account of a chance meeting in Nose Hill Park in a letter to the editor of the Calgary Herald, during a recent visit to the city in western Canada.
Wawra said he and his wife were confronted in broad daylight on a paved trail by two men who asked “in a very aggressive tone” if the couple had “been to the Stampede yet?”
“They approached in such an aggressive, disrespectful and menacing manner,” he wrote, that the off-duty cop instinctively reached for where his sidearm would have been had he been south of the border.
“I quickly moved between these two and my wife, replying, ‘Gentlemen, I have no need to talk with you, goodbye,’” he said. “I thank the Lord Jesus Christ they did not pull a weapon of some sort.”
“Many would say I have no need to carry (a gun) in Canada,” Wawra added. “Yet the police cannot protect everyone all the time. A man should be allowed to protect himself if the need arises.”
The letter sparked a flurry of ridicule.
A Calgary restaurant owner wrote on a sidewalk sandwich board, “Have you been to the Stampede yet? Just kidding, don’t shoot me!”
“At the off leash (dog park) this morning when two terriers started to sniff my dog. If only Canada would allow my dog to pack heat,” tweeted Connor Turner.
“Ice cream truck just sped past house. Sir, I have no need for your refreshing pseudo-milk product treats. Goodbye,” said Kikki Planet in another Twitter message.
The daily National Post recounted the story alongside photos of gun-totting actor Clint Eastwood in the movie “Dirty Harry” and Charles Bronson as a vigilante in “Death Wish.”
The Huffington Post, meanwhile, ran the headline: “Fear and Loathing in Cowtown,” referring to Calgary’s cattle industry links.
Subsequent to the furor, a tourism official said the two young men who encountered Wawra were simply giving out free passes to the Calgary Stampede rodeo.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/1...ble-to-carry-a gun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
As a Canadian I apologize for the ridicule but do take into consideration we're talking about Cowtown residents. Their machoism consists of pulling cow teats and measuring bull penises.
As an aside, years ago, I was in a "chat room" and became friends with a couple. The man lost his job so he and his wife decided to try long distance trucking. They worked as a team. Anyway, they came up from the States to where I live so I met them at the truck stop. After having coffee together they showed me their rig. Nice set-up. TV. Stove and fridge. Not too shabby! Anyway, he was saying they had to be careful on the road never knowing who they'll meet but he didn't worry. Then he pulled out a sawed-off shot gun. LOL
I told them they better not let anyone see that because if it was reported they had it and brought it across the border they'd be in doo-doo for a loooong time. Jail. Seized truck. In the end they'd be an elderly couple hitchhiking home.
But I do see the reason for having a weapon. If there is a breakdown in the middle of nowhere who knows whom they'll meet? They could easily be beaten, their cargo robbed and who would know? And, today, with the economy in poor shape and people out of work there is all the more need to have protection.
Hold on to those gun rights. They are the last defense for freedom.
"May your reality be as pleasant as mine."
OMG that's funny!! Aggressive questioning by locals about the stampede!! What a hoot!! LMAO Poor scared, insane Americans...I'd feel sorry for them if they weren't so stupid. Makes me ashamed. Thanks for the post :0)
Stupid, paranoid, and armed is a bad combination.
Christianity: Sending telepathic messages to a Jewish ghost letting him know that you will accept him as your master and ask him to remove a magical curse that was passed down to you because an old woman that was made from the rib of her partner ate a piece of magical fruit from a magical tree because a talking snake told her to.
Ask me again why I'm an atheist?
I think that explains a lot about liberals......you spend a lot of time being ashamed of America.....Originally Posted by Haiku
Only when we have to admit we live in the same country that has Michele Bachman as a member of government and all the attendant fallout from the insane Tbaggers....When I say I want my country back it means something entirely different from when you say it. We are a laughing stock, not that you and yours give a shit about anything or anybody else. Our particular brand of insanity runs deep on the right and part of the reason Obama was so warmly welcomed by the world was they all thought he'd be more rational and sane than the Bush cabal. You think like thugs and are afraid. Your policies suck and you have no idea how to govern. The new libertarian mindmeld indicates that you don't even believe in a democracy as a form of government. We have been much diminished due to the last 30 years of RWA government undermining everything that we once held dear. Liberals didn't do that, but your blind, deaf and dumb.
Stupid, paranoid, and armed is a bad combination.
Christianity: Sending telepathic messages to a Jewish ghost letting him know that you will accept him as your master and ask him to remove a magical curse that was passed down to you because an old woman that was made from the rib of her partner ate a piece of magical fruit from a magical tree because a talking snake told her to.
Ask me again why I'm an atheist?
CanceledB (08-10-2012)
you see the difference?......you get ashamed, we just get amused.....
interesting that the story you linked to completely ignores the fact that walt is a michigan police officer. i guess that might make the canadians look stupid, denying a police officer the ability to carry a gun.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
you sound like a complete moron, you know that?
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
Coming from you I'll take that as a compliment.
Stupid, paranoid, and armed is a bad combination.
Christianity: Sending telepathic messages to a Jewish ghost letting him know that you will accept him as your master and ask him to remove a magical curse that was passed down to you because an old woman that was made from the rib of her partner ate a piece of magical fruit from a magical tree because a talking snake told her to.
Ask me again why I'm an atheist?
He should have been attacked for calling himself Walt! What a wally!
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
Aoxomoxoa (08-11-2012)
What difference does that make? He was an American citizen like any other in a country where carrying weapons is prohibited.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going, and hook up with them later.
Have they moved Michigan then?
Welcome to Michigan, Canada!
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
Haiku (08-11-2012)
are you saying that police training makes zero difference as to whether one can carry a gun or not?
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —CHARLES A. BEARD
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. - Patrick Henry
Here's an interesting article.
(Excerpt) Looking for the number of burglaries last year in Devils Lake, N.D.? How about the increase in property crimes in Caribou, Maine? The answers (34 and 23 percent, respectively) are readily available from the FBI.
Want detailed information on how many people were shot by police in the United States last year?
That's not so easy to find.
The nation's leading law enforcement agency collects vast amounts of information on crime nationwide, but missing from this clearinghouse are statistics on where, how often, and under what circumstances police use deadly force. In fact, no one anywhere comprehensively tracks the most significant act police can do in the line of duty: take a life.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-forc...134256308.html
I find that peculiar. How about you?
"May your reality be as pleasant as mine."
Haiku (08-11-2012)
Had you not noticed that Canada is not the US? better get your atlas out, old son.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
I am saying that when you are in a different country you have to respect that countries laws, how hard is that to understand?
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going, and hook up with them later.
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