K9 dog, Danny sniffs the stetson of his partner, slain Const. Dave Ross, during the funeral procession for the three RCMP officers who were shot and killed on duty. Photo taken at their regimental funeral in Moncton, NB on Tuesday, June 10. Danny will be going back on duty with a new partner but right now he seems to be saying, "Come on Dave, quit hiding, I'm bored. Put your hat on and lets go chase some bad guys". Danny could later be heard crying during the funeral.
This is a big deal in Canada where this type of thing rarely happens. The last time was in 2005 when four RCMP officers were shot and killed by a sniper while they were raiding a marijuana grow operation in Alberta.
Just two days ago a female Vancouver City Police officer was wounded during a gun battle with an attempted murder suspect in Vancouver. American style gun violence is spreading to Canada.
it does indeed say it all..heartbreaking :*(
ReplyDeleteAs a 30 year retired LEO, I must say I was shocked when your RCMP Mounties were shot, We went through a really tough time in the 70's where it seemed everyday there was a police officer shot. You folks have had three incidents two involving RCMP Officers in the last month. I pray this is not a sign of bad times to come in your country. My prayers go out to those young men who lost their lives. Sam & Donna....
ReplyDeleteWe take you guys too much for granted, Sam. I am going to start going out of my way to say "thanks" when I see LEO's on the street.
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ReplyDeleteReally? So, you are blaming America for what is happening in Canada?
WOW, you sound just like our president, any bad decision he makes, he blames somebody else for his screw-ups
No, "Unknown", I blame the idiots with guns who don't know what they are for and the idiots who support them. Both groups seem to be concentrated in the US.
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That was a sad event. Of course some nut twists your comment about gun violence. It is American style violence and it is spreading to Canada. Hardly the fault of our president. More like a cultural tolerance of gun violence.
ReplyDeleteCanada is a big place but holds few people for its size, there should be a smaller number of nutjobs than in the 300 million plus US. Nutjobs use guns to kill because they work well for killing, Canada is a nation of hunters, guns are available . I suspect that if we graphed out the gun violence in Canada over a few decades, we would find that there has been little or no increase in killer nutjobs. There will always be people who go round the bend and shoot up the place, it's a human thing. But, I doubt your nation is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Any shooting is sad, really too bad that there is people like that in this world.
ReplyDeleteYour post made me cry :(
ReplyDeleteMe too. :(
DeleteVery sad when any good person is taken like that but doubly so when they were trying to protect civilians.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking you're getting an idea what Chicago faces day in and day out.
Or parts of Mexico
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Delete"American style gun violence is spreading to Canada" is inaccurate. When people think of the mass shootings in the U.S., Columbine is probably the first that comes to mind. But look up what happened on December 6th, 1989, in Montreal, years before Columbine.
ReplyDeleteI bet that if we looked at the stats, we'd find that we have the same amount of crimes like these, in proportion to our population.
In terms of legal, registered firearms, a study done a few years ago came out with the surprising news that a) there are more (legal, registered) firearms per capita in Canada than in the States and b) that more Canadians own a gun than do Americans. What skews numbers in the States is the folks with big gun collections, but per capita, there are fewer gun owners than up here.
I understand Canadians own guns, Rae. I also understand we are much more responsible with them. Canadians use guns to fill their freezers, not the morgue. We lock them up when we go out, we do not strap them to our ass and go order a latte.
DeleteWhat I said was gun violence is spreading to Canada. not gun ownership.
And you missed my point that 'American gun violence' has existed in Canada least as long and that we likely have as much, proportionately speaking. :)
DeleteIt is the 'violence' part we disagree on Rae, not the presence of guns. I understand the population difference but even so there is far less 'violence' committed with guns in Canada. I can recall only two university shootings, both being in Montreal, one in 1989 and another in 1991, only one (1989) involving students. I cannot recall one elementary/high school shooting except possibly one in Alberta but as I recall it happened off school property. I cannot recall a movie theater shooting, ever. Road rage in Canada ends with a 'finger' rather than a bullet. Gang shootouts are few and are pretty much limited to motorcycle gangs. Yes, there was a gang execution in a Kelowna resort years ago and one in downtown Vancouver years ago. In the US, shootings happen literally every day, often multiple times a day.
DeleteHere is a chart but every country reports stats for different years. Still the difference between Canada and the US is noticeable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Overall death rate by firearms per 100,000 population
Canada 2.38
USA 10.3
The term 'violence' includes more than deaths but I think it is fair to say that Canada is far ahead of the US here as well.
I did not mean to imply that there was NEVER any gun violence in Canada before now, only that there was much, much less proportionally speaking. That was what I meant by "American style" gun violence.