This is not a fake letter. This is a real letter sent to the Calgary Herald by Kalamazoo Police Officer Walt Wawra while visiting Calgary:
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I recently visited Calgary from Michigan. As a police officer for 20 years, it feels strange not to carry my off-duty hand-gun. Many would say I have no need to carry one in Canada.
Yet the police cannot protect everyone all the time. A man should be al-lowed to protect himself if the need arises. The need arose in a theatre in Aurora, Colo., as well as a college campus in Canada.
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?"
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.
i hate when people try to argue for less gun control by bringing up massacres.
"well, if this person had a gun he could have stopped it."
or he could have shot innocent people by accident.
and lets not act like the only people buying the guns would be good guys.
the people who have the need for guns to begin with are criminals...
I hate it when people argue for more gun control by brining up massacres.
All they do is shout, "More Gun Control" without brining up any measures to actually stop these. These morons act like criminals actually follow laws.
And to the bolded, someone with a gun could have a chance to stop it. People have stopped things like this in the past so acting like it's some fantasy is dumb.
The fact is that you don't want people to protect themselves from incidents like these and that's simply twisted.
I hate it when people argue for more gun control by brining up massacres.
All they do is shout, "More Gun Control" without brining up any measures to actually stop these. These morons act like criminals actually follow laws.
And to the bolded, someone with a gun could have a chance to stop it. People have stopped things like this in the past so acting like it's some fantasy is dumb.
The fact is that you don't want people to protect themselves from incidents like these and that's simply twisted.
People always say this shit and it's ridiculous to me. Obviously they don't follow laws but the laws would make it harder for them to get guns, reducing the number of criminals with guns, reducing the number of people getting shot by criminals with guns.
I hate it when people argue for more gun control by brining up massacres.
All they do is shout, "More Gun Control" without brining up any measures to actually stop these. These morons act like criminals actually follow laws.
And to the bolded, someone with a gun could have a chance to stop it. People have stopped things like this in the past so acting like it's some fantasy is dumb.
The fact is that you don't want people to protect themselves from incidents like these and that's simply twisted.
i do want them to protect themselves, but its just that giving guns to people who want to protect themselves could me just giving a gun to someone with barely any training who just wants to have a gun.
that could lead to many incidents where people shoot people who they think are trying to attack them.
People always say this shit and it's ridiculous to me. Obviously they don't follow laws but the laws would make it harder for them to get guns, reducing the number of criminals with guns, reducing the number of people getting shot by criminals with guns.
I hear this a lot, no one has ever explained how it will work though, I'll believe gun control works when marijuana control starts working.
People always say this shit and it's ridiculous to me. Obviously they don't follow laws but the laws would make it harder for them to get guns, reducing the number of criminals with guns, reducing the number of people getting shot by criminals with guns.
Again, criminals don't follow laws. There's no guarantee they wouldn't get those guns.
i do want them to protect themselves, but its just that giving guns to people who want to protect themselves could me just giving a gun to someone with barely any training who just wants to have a gun.
that could lead to many incidents where people shoot people who they think are trying to attack them.
or it could lead to even more massacres.
If that's what you think then that would already be happening on a regular basis. This isn't a John Wayne/Clint Eastwood movie.
The Case for Gun Control
