http://twitchy.com/coucy/2024/03/14/toronto-police-car-key-fobs-n2393956
Back in 2022, Canada passed a national ban on the 'sale, purchase or transfer of handguns by individuals within Canada,' called 'Bill C-21,' which was trumpeted at the time by the Liberal Party-led government in Ottawa as much needed 'Legislation to reduce gun violence.' This bill was pushed through over the objections of gun rights advocates like the NRA, who noted a similar law accompanied by a mandatory gun-buyback program in New Zealand led not to a decrease in violent crime but rather a significant increase. Gage Haubrich of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation is noted by the NRA as having pointed this out:
... in the decade before the buyback, violent firearm offences (in New Zealand) averaged 932 a year. In 2019, the year of the buyback, there were 1,142 offences; in 2020, 1,156; in 2021, 1,338; and last year, 1,444. That’s up almost 55 per cent over the pre-ban decade.
But Canada and New Zealand are entirely different countries, right? Surely things are going better in the Great White North, right? Well about that ...
The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) ~ In Canada, vehicle owners are being urged to leave their keys near the front door to prevent being attacked by armed thieves.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1768091831676395526
Comforting words from the Toronto Police, telling vehicle owners (emphasis ours):
To prevent the possibility of being attacked at home, leave your (car key) fobs at your front door ... they're breaking into your home to steal your car, they don't want anything else. A lot of them that they're arresting have guns on them ... and they're not toy guns, they're real guns; they're loaded.
In Texas, you can get fined for leaving your keys in your car - because you are inviting car theft. And, if your car gets stolen because you left your keys in the car, your insurance company might be exempt from having to pay out on your coverage.
Well gee, wouldn't it be nice if car owners perhaps had a way to fight back against car thieves that are breaking into people's houses to steal their car keys! Taking the guns away from law-abiding citizens sure seems to be working out great for other countries, you can see why American Leftists are so eager to bring that kind of thing here!
Social distancing champ (@LadyGriz) ~ This is how Liberals want to live. Appease the criminals so you don’t hurt their feelings.
abacus (@funEbone2u) ~ Don’t want to upset the thieves. 🙄
Lunas Ra (@lunas_ra) ~ So basically it's a green light for auto theft to get even worse. Geniuses!
Honestly being a car thief in Canada seems like a pretty sweet gig, no wonder so many more people seem to be taking it up to make a little extra money these days!
DocBrewskie (@DocBrewskie) ~ Perhaps if a dozen or so of these thieves got popped breaking in, this would stop.
A good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun? How horrible, won't someone think of the bad guy?
Waffle Ladders (@waffle_ladders) ~ When authorities are urging submission to criminals, they have lost their authority and should be replaced.
Tim Decentralize and nullify (@Tim_The_Sandman) ~ Alternatively, the government could just stop preventing citizens from defending themselves with effective weapons and the problem would stop.
Kel (@stopthebiscuit) ~ If the thieves have guns, then why shouldn't the car owners also have guns?
Yes, well, that is rather the question. One almost gets the impression that short-sighted 'fixes' that make people feel good don't necessarily do much in the way of solving anything. Who'd have thought it?
Ragnar Danneskjold (@FreeDanneskjold) ~ How about just leaving the keys in the vehicle so they don’t have to go through the trouble of breaking your front door down? Duh!
Honestly, if this is where they're going with this then people might as well go ahead and take Ragnar's advice ... why put yourself to the expense of replacing your door when you have to buy a new car too?
Jasmine Keith (@Jasmine_Keith1) ~ Just when you think Canada can’t be any more unserious.
The Toronto Police Department is embarrassing itself.
Liberty-Identitarian (@EricTropicalTX) ~ Okay, I'll be the first to call it. Canada is now officially the very worst nation on planet earth.
Well, that is hyperbole, BUT ... Canada has certainly gone out of its way to seriously beclown itself in so many ways. Canadian citizens are NOT very free, there.
Tactical Wisdom (@DolioJ) ~ Seems like they should focus on reducing the crime.
Yep ... and they should focus are reducing the number of criminals by allowing armed citizens to blow their heads off when they are trying to commit crimes.
Yes, well, the Canadians have a reputation for politeness to uphold you see. Just because these car thieves and house robbers aren't holding up their end doesn't mean that the cops and citizenry should be impolite to the criminals, right?
This is yet another reason to be thankful for the forethought the Founding Fathers put into adding the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The problems caused by government mismanagement of the levers of power can't be fixed by the government mismanaging a different lever. All of these schemes to 'easily' fix societal problems always end this way, of course, because there's never an easy fix to societal problems ... and anyone who tells you that there is, is probably trying to sell you something or get elected.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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