If You Don't Secure Your Firearms, Don't Complain When the Police Take them

Harper's Redneck Society, High River Branch, is incensed that RCMP officers entered their abandoned homes and recovered unsecured firearms left in plain view.  Sideshow Steve wasted no time in bitching about it, even exceeding his authority to recommend direct that the weapons be returned to their owners without delay. 

Now the RCMP officers are to be investigated for securing unattended firearms.

Sure Cletis may or may not have had his guns secured in a proper gun safe in the basement when the floods arrived and, sure, he and his wife/sister may have had to move their shootin' irons to high ground above the flood waterline before hightailing it out themselves.

None of that makes one damned bit of difference.   If you own a firearm you have to secure it in accordance with regulations.  There is no flood exemption that says you can leave your weapons unsecured and unattended while you bug out to higher ground.  If you have to leave and can't secure them, take the damned things with you even if it's just to drop them off for safekeeping at the cop shop until the waters recede.

It was the officers' duty to protect the public by ensuring unattended and unsecured guns didn't fall into the wrong hands during the property owners' absence.   Imagine the investigation we would have had if no efforts had been made to secure those weapons and they were taken by miscreants and used against innocent civilians.

If anybody should be investigated it should be those gunowners who flagrantly breached their legal obligations.   They should consider themselves lucky they haven't been charged for putting their community in peril.