Redford government to arm peace officers with guns and Tasers

wow, these guys should have been armed period. No reason not to, but I guess that feeling may come from a similar one held by a select few members on this site that feels nobody needs guns, and who don't believe in self defense. This is what you get for that kind of view, a dead victim.

+5 for saying all that needs to be said.

Read about this a few days ago. I couldn't believe they didn't have some sort of defensive weapon, even against a dog! Yet they give guns to the border clerks.

As long as they are well-trained in their use, they can have whatever weapons are deemed necessary for their job. If that someday means they need M-16s, then so be it. Fortunately, we are a long way from that in Canada.

The problem I have is with Joe Sixpack wanting to carry a pistol to Wal-Mart, Superstore or Cineplex.

I dunno Boots, those asians at superstore can get pretty aggresive if you try to get at the corn on the cob while they're pawing though it. A glock could come in handy.

I dunno Boots, those asians at superstore can get pretty aggresive if you try to get at the corn on the cob while they're pawing though it. A glock could come in handy.

I just use my greater body size to push them out of the way - same as on the Skytrain when they try their sneak by on the side maneuver.

WTF is a peace officer? Here we say "peace, officer," just as the cops are about to bust us on the head. Or is that the drunken Albertan way of saying police officer? ("Look out, here comes the peash ocifer, hide the booze") (Sorry).

I dunno Boots, those asians at superstore can get pretty aggresive if you try to get at the corn on the cob while they're pawing though it. A glock could come in handy.

That's why it's better to buy corn elsewhere.

Everything aside, I don't think they have very much on the babas who used to frequent $1.44 days at Woolco!



A peace officer is similar to a security guard (in nature), but they are usually employed by the local government - city or province.



They don't carry weapons, but can hand out traffic citations and other minor offences.

The intresting thing is the Canadian Criminal Code references "Peace Officer" more than Police Officer.

The term "peace officer" refers to a lot of people & positions in Canada.

quite a few positions!

"peace officer” includes

(a) a mayor, warden, reeve, sheriff, deputy sheriff, sheriff’s officer and justice of the peace,


(b) a member of the Correctional Service of Canada who is designated as a peace officer pursuant to Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, and a warden, deputy warden, instructor, keeper, jailer, guard and any other officer or permanent employee of a prison other than a penitentiary as defined in Part I of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act,


(c) a police officer, police constable, bailiff, constable, or other person employed for the preservation and maintenance of the public peace or for the service or execution of civil process,


(d) an officer within the meaning of the Customs Act, the Excise Act or the Excise Act, 2001, or a person having the powers of such an officer, when performing any duty in the administration of any of those Acts,


(d.1) an officer authorized under subsection 138(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,


(e) a person designated as a fishery guardian under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act and a person designated as a fishery officer under the Fisheries Act when performing any duties or functions under that Act or the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act,


(f) the pilot in command of an aircraft

(i) registered in Canada under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act, or


(ii) leased without crew and operated by a person who is qualified under regulations made under the Aeronautics Act to be registered as owner of an aircraft registered in Canada under those regulations,


while the aircraft is in flight, and


(g) officers and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Forces who are

(i) appointed for the purposes of section 156 of the National Defence Act, or


(ii) employed on duties that the Governor in Council, in regulations made under the National Defence Act for the purposes of this paragraph, has prescribed to be of such a kind as to necessitate that the officers and non-commissioned members performing them have the powers of peace officers

Shit, arming our town bylaw/peace officer means the pistol barrel will be dragging in the mud, she's that short.

The truck she has looks unoccupied...lol

Interesting. You are actually positing that a person opposed to gun control is also opposed to self defence?

A fascinating postulation, and I suspect a dumb one as well.

If the dead victim had had a gun, what kind of view would that have been gotten from?

What I find ironic is that Peace Officers are not allowed to carry a gun but they wear bullet proof vests.

And just in time for the corn season....



The sound is bad, but this technique works well, I can even do it better than this guy now.