Canadians rightly jeer some Michigan cop who complains about Canada’s gun laws.
A Michigan cop and his wife go for a walk in Nose Hill Park in Calgary. What follows, by his own account in a letter to the Calgary Herald, is an encounter with two men that he didn’t want to have. Walt Wawra’s criticism of Canadian gun laws is now a Twitter sensation - #nosehillgentlemen
“Recently, while out for a walk in Nose Hill Park, in broad daylight on a paved trail, two young men approached my wife and me. The men stepped in front of us, then said in a very aggressive tone: ‘Been to the Stampede yet?’” writes Mr. Wawra in his letter to the editor.
The 20-year veteran of the Kalamazoo, Michigan, police department, carries an “off-duty hand-gun” when in Michigan. But while visiting Calgary with his wife he found it strange not to be able to do so. Here is the rest of the encounter:
We ignored them. The two moved closer, repeating: “Hey, you been to the Stampede yet?”
I quickly moved between these two and my wife, replying, “Gentle-men, I have no need to talk with you, goodbye.” They looked bewildered, and we then walked past them.
I speculate they did not have good intentions when they approached in such an aggressive, disrespectful and menacing manner. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ they did not pull a weapon of some sort, but rather concluded it was in their best interest to leave us alone.
Would we not expect a uniformed officer to pull his or her weapon to intercede in a life-or-death encounter to protect self, or another? Why then should the expectation be lower for a citizen of Canada or a visitor? Wait, I know – it’s because in Canada, only the criminals and the police carry handguns.
Ridicule, outrage and harsh words followed as Canadians reacted on social media to Walt Wawra’s letter.
As rightly they should; what a paranoid jack-off.
This is our country, Yankee cop, not yours; we do things our way here, and will decide for ourselves how we want to do things; you go ahead and do things your way down there; we won’t tell you how to run your country, when we visit; and we ask you to show the same courtesy, douchebag. Capiche?
Thanks.
Oh and to the Calgary Herald, giving him a platform? You suck.
P.S. The job of police, everywhere, is to enforce the law; not to tell others what the laws should be. That’s up to the legislatures and courts to decide, not the police…
I realize, I comment on things, and give my opinions here and at Patriactionary.
But (a) I’m just a blogger nobody, not a professional being published in a newspaper, and (b) you will notice I haven’t criticized America’s gun laws, because IMO, they’re none of my business. (Some things, I consider off-limits, esp. if it means criticizing something that is the way a country has always done things, as opposed to liberal / progressive changes…)
I may criticize our own, but that’s my privilege, as a Canadian.
The other thing is, this is an agent of a foreign State, telling us how we should run things, and that is unacceptable.
Fellow bloggers and commenters giving their opinions as private citizens, is totally different, IMO.
Fair enough, the cop is ass but if I had a dollar for every time a patronizing Canadian told me how the US should conduct it’s affairs I’d be millionaire. It must be something in the BC water because as soon as a budget conscious Canadian shopper has crossed into Washington state he immediately feels the need to spout mind numbing PC nonsense regarding every aspect of US affairs and it’s always spoken in a sanctimonious, lady professor manner. And being such good natured people, at least in Bellingham, we just ignore it.
It reminds me of a conversation I had many years ago with a Canadian Indian I was working with. I was complaining about the raw sewage that the city of Victoria pumped straight into the Straight of Juan de Fuca, the city continually refusing to treat it’s sewage. His response, “Canadians think their shit don’t stink.”
B.C. sucks; it’s filled with self-righteous leftists. I feel your pain.
I spout off on this blog and my other one about whatever I feel like, but generally, I am articulating a position in favour of what used to be the status quo, in most cases, no matter where or what the issue. Thus, in general, I’m not so much telling others what they should do, as reminding them what they used to do, and questioning the wisdom of straying from that, to what they do now.
That’s why I won’t preach about gun control, etc., even though I will pontificate widely, on a wide range of subjects.
And yes, all too many of my fellow Canadians are self-righteous pricks who think they’re better than Americans. Whereas I just think we’re different, and different strokes for different folks, I say, on matters like type of government, gun control, and other things I consider fundamental to national self-definitions / character.
Cheers.
Found a story you might relate to:
http://happolatismiscellany.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/fed-up-with-canadian-shoppers-u-s-customers-want-their-own-shopping-hours/