Self Defense For Me But Not For Thee

15 Replies to “Self Defense For Me But Not For Thee”

1. There is no crime in Montreal. They march with pots and pans.

2. The more of Them who can have guns, the less guns We can have.

   Governments in Canada hate Canadians.
   Ever been to Parliament Hill?
   Between the PPS and the RCMP its a small and extremely well-armed force.
   No “assault-style” weapons up there, people, They’ve got the Real Thing.

   Shithole.

3. They don’t need guns, they need to replace the constables with mental health counsellors.

4. –in last year, 487 required the use of force
   —Since January, 85 constables have been injured in interventions, the union president said, in comparison to 123 over the course of last year.

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   So in clarification since the article (probably purposefully) keeps these two statistics apart, just over 25% of those incidents that required force led to injuries in Transit personnel.

   BUT, The Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) said it has no plans to give constables more weapons, saying it instead prefers to favour de-escalation tactics.

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   (shrugs)…If the Transit personnel were under my jurisdiction, I’d only hire guys that looked like defensive linemen going forward. The risk of being turned into a human pretzel can be be a pretty good de-escalation tactic.

   1. I would argue that use of a gun is a de-escalation tactic.

      1. “I would argue that use of a gun is a de-escalation tactic.”

         Yes, but only if they shoot the attacker, and not several bystanders because Mr. Security Goof can’t hit a barn from the inside.

         “instead prefers to favour de-escalation tactics.”

         This is because they know who they hired, and therefore know that giving guns to those idiots would be a catastrophe. Not to mention the lawsuits.

         A better approach would be to -fire- all the security goofs and have the cops arrest any bad actors, who would then be deported if they survived falling down the stairs six times at the police station. You know, like how they used to do it at 52 Division. Cherry Beach Express, baby.

   2. Give them shields, and send them to HEMA to learn how to use them

5. “Because we have no firearms, people feel justified in assaulting and attacking us”

   As an American, I would welcome about 99% of you guys here including Kate. It’s hard to leave your own country but sometimes having freedom, liberty and the right to bear arms is irresistible.

   In Montana, we have a castle law. Any criminal breaking into my house will be shot and killed. I call the cops, they see the broken window and the guy with the knife dead, ask me some questions and that’s that. It’s over. No court trial. No nothing. It’s over. In addition, my wife and I carry everywhere we go.

   You know the term “no duty to retreat?” We have that too. I don’t need to retreat, just aim and fire. So many Democrats don’t like this. OK, so let them move to New York or Chicago. Screw them.

   I am a veteran and was in the US Army 4 years during Vietnam but I most certainly do NOT want to harm anyone. It’s a bad memory, trust me. I am so grateful to be in a country where I can defend myself. Not even the Israelis allow for more than a small percentage of its Jewish citizens to be armed.

   I wish you get our freedoms some day. Wouldn’t you guys like to live like that?

   1. When I lived in Alberta ranch country decades ago I always had a shotgun in the rack on the back window of my pickup truck, even when driving into town. Never heard a peep from the cops.

      As an aside however I was jailed for dating the daughter of the staff sergeant of the Cochrane RCMP detachment.

      He hated me because I was previously jailed for marijuana possession in Saskatoon.

      There were a lot of fun times in the Wild West.

   2. JG, It’s really easy to leave your country when it left you first. I don’t recognize this place, except for the cold winters. Not even the smell is the same. 75,000 curry reeking filthy sub humans from the sub continent will ruin any place. Even Halifax. Shithole-literally. These pigs shit on the beach, in the harbour, anywhere at all.

6. But don’t pull your service weapon unless you have been mortally wounded at least three times.
   That was an actual security firm policy.

7. Because nothing says “SAFETY!” like a firearm being discharged by a half-trained security goof in a crowded bus, or a subway station at rush hour, or on a moving train…

   “people feel justified in assaulting and attacking us”

   Yes, that’s because you’re French. Sorry, nothing to be done there.

   1. Because nothing says “SAFETY!” like a firearm being discharged by a half-trained security goof…

      Few years back when they armed the Canuckistan border guards they gave a gun to this one goof in Coutts. It was bloody scary to see him packing heat. MikeT here knows him, too (RB).

      1. I’ve seen some cops that I wouldn’t trust to hold a horse by the head, much less issue them a firearm. Just -stupid-.

         But, at least cops are trained and disciplined troops before they let them out in public, right? Semi-military type of training. The grossly incompetent and the wildly insane get weeded out, leaving the stupid to struggle on.

         Transit Security are basically rent-a-goof. There’s no selection, training is they take a weekend course if they’re lucky, and they are not subject to military discipline. The ones that are too stupid or otherwise f-ed up to make Constable become transit security.

         I’d sooner arm the drivers. They can at least drive, right?

8. Meh.
   Withdraw the guards.
   Issue each passenger a single shot pistol with their ticket,to be refunded at exit station…If they wish.