Friday, July 05, 2013

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.

5 comments:

  1. My lord, my lord. Not more of the Harperites whistling to their gun lobby faction? Maybe they can make a few votes, maybe they can make a few dollars, but it is getting tedious and boring.

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  2. Sadly, some poor C/O in the High River detachment is going to get screwed over because of his decision to secure the guns. I can spot a railroading a mile away.

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  3. So Sad... people don't have brains enought to figure out what is ethical and what isn't.

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  4. Think of the reaction if they hadn't been good old boys( cue Deliverance banjo)but teenage boys, or worse: women, or dangerous eco-terrorists out to get Joe Oliver or Haida, or Somalis or Muslims. It would have been jail, no bail then rendition.

    It strikes me that Harper is spending a lot of integrity on groups he does not have to lure. Its not like the gunnuts are about to vote for someone else. Has his deliberate alienation of all of Canada east of Ontario finally struck him and caused irrational panic?

    No matter what its interesting to see Harper support criminal activity instead of law and order.

    rumleyfips

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  5. The people who are whining are the sort who bring such discredit on responsible gun owners. Those firearms the RCMP recovered are the responsibility of their owners every minute of every day. I question whether they should be returned at all. Possessing firearms is a privilege and usually failure to secure weapons rescinds the privilege.

    I agree this has the makings of a railroading, one with the full force of Harper's hypocrisy behind it.

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