After all, we're talking Canada here, where seeing a citizen with a handgun--especially in Toronto--is deemed a shocking (and generally illegal) sight. Still, there are plenty of examples we could point to here in the land of the Second Amendment where our countrymen would react with equal panic, and our police with an equally forceful response. Yet add the magical trappings of a government-issued uniform with a badge amulet, and seeing an accompanying weapon on a fellow human is accepted as the natural order of things... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column deals with perceptions we must work to change.
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ReplyDeleteBuy your children toy weapons for Christmas and you could face an armed raid, police warn parents
An innocent game of cops and robbers used to provide two benefits - lots of fun and a basic understanding of right and wrong.
But children caught playing with a toy gun today have been warned they face something far more memorable - a raid by armed police marksmen.
Officers have told parents to avoid buying youngsters plastic guns for Christmas in case passers-by mistake them for dangerous weapons.
A [police] spokesman said all calls about guns had to be taken seriously and it was not always possible to identify whether or not they were real.
He added: 'If we are called out you will probably get an MP5 put into your face, unless we can tell it is an imitation firearm.'
"Yet add the magical trappings of a government-issued uniform with a badge amulet, and seeing an accompanying weapon on a fellow human is accepted as the natural order of things... "
ReplyDeleteUniform/badge worship... it has to stop. And that includes right-wing deification of "Our Troops".
http://www.nostate.com/37/the-clown-suit-defense-and-the-excuses-of-symbols/
Deification of our troops. I used to be a "troop", and I never was, nor would I even consider, treating our troops as G*d. You kind of give yourself and your position away, there, Luke, with the use of the term "right wing". If anything, the troops get treated like pure shit most of the time, and usually only remembered on Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and when we are up to our asses in trouble. So you can take your sniffing little deification and shove it. It don't fly with me, nor the rest of the grunts. And if you still got a problem, go out to any National Cemetery, and check out the occupants, or maybe a VA hospital, and count the real arms and legs versus the artificial. Then try remembering why you're free, sport.
ReplyDeleteI'm a vet too, Sean. So stuff it up your own you-know-what.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a good long while since anybody in the US military fought, bled or died for our freedom, "sport". The biggest threat to our freedom is the very government that pays "our" troops and gives them their marching orders, and has been since the Whiskey Rebellion.
Your jumping down my throat and making unfounded assumptions about me (US Navy, 1996-2000) over a comment you interpreted to be a slight to The Troops proves my point nicely.