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This is how other countries see the US. The author claims to be an American Canadaian, she obviously has never spent time in the US. She seems to think it's the wild west in the US and we just shoot people at will.
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Wawra that the need didn’t arise in Calgary, and that if he’d been carrying a handgun, two people might now be dead because they asked him if he’d been to the Stampede.
As an American who is also a Canadian citizen, all I can say is, thank God I live in Canada."
They went through what we are with all the government employees and welfare types sucking the money and air out if the room. They fired and got tons of people off the drug of the government.
They think we are crazy trying to allow all this great society stuff and I was told they think that is why you get all the riff raff in America.
They could be right.
I think the author of the blog post is full of crap. Wawra is typical of many police officers of late here, paranoid and thinking that everyone might be a potential threat. Love how the author spins this and says look how Americans are so paranoid, 2 people might have ended up dead if this was in the US. Guess what? If you ban handguns here anyway, Wawra is still a handgun carrying cop that could have just as easily shot them dead. He would still have a gun, on the virtue that he's a police officer. This has nothing to do with handgun laws. The author is a joke
Well; you have to take each situation in context. Officer Wawra from Kalamazoo is the very epitome of the arrogant Amercan tourist in that he came to a foreign country, did not factor that into his thinking whatsoever and reacted as though he were still at home in an area of higher personal crime. The unmitigated arrogance comes in when the details emerge that what would be considered a perfectly normal encounter in Canada, he considered a threat situation.
How bizarre is that? he visits a foreign country with the presumption that any two people who approach him are automaticaly a threat? Why leave your cocoon and your gun behind if you're that afraid of life?
I think the author of the blog post is full of crap. Wawra is typical of many police officers of late here, paranoid and thinking that everyone might be a potential threat. Love how the author spins this and says look how Americans are so paranoid, 2 people might have ended up dead if this was in the US. Guess what? If you ban handguns here anyway, Wawra is still a handgun carrying cop that could have just as easily shot them dead. He would still have a gun, on the virtue that he's a police officer. This has nothing to do with handgun laws. The author is a joke
This is how other countries see the US. The author claims to be an American Canadaian, she obviously has never spent time in the US. She seems to think it's the wild west in the US and we just shoot people at will.
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Wawra that the need didn’t arise in Calgary, and that if he’d been carrying a handgun, two people might now be dead because they asked him if he’d been to the Stampede.
As an American who is also a Canadian citizen, all I can say is, thank God I live in Canada."
It would seem a veteran cop of the mean streets of Kalamazoo would be well-trained in being able to size up a potential threat and how to either defuse a situation or handle it through means which don't require the application of firepower.
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