Learning about geography and gun worship. The hard way.

[RealityInSeattle]

http://www.kirotv.com/consumer/21725257/detail.html

This is a VERY interesting article for two reasons...

One is the very pro-gun slant in the headline, (it is absolutely no coincidence this particular media company is 100% privately owned by the Mormon Church...don't get me started on that.) the other is the fact that this guy appears to genuinely be surprised that other places on earth might not think it is normal to drive around with 85 rounds and a gun in your car.

It is a lesson that our gun culture is a very geographically specific phenomenon. It is not how other first-world countries treat guns.

This guy is going to learn that the hard way in a Canadian prison. Of course, he can just not go back to Canada and never do the time. I doubt he would be extradited.

Yes..it is a "little known" law that you can't bring a loaded gun into another country. If you have not been paying attention maybe.

The normalization and acceptance of guns has been extremely effective in the USA, but despite that, gun worshippers constantly bemoan and wail how oppressed and restrictively they are treated. Yet, here is a media outlet saying how surprising it is that another country might want you to mention the loaded gun in your car as you come in. What? You have laws about that? Huh? Whaaaa? But..no one told me!

This guy learned how powerful and misleading the guns-are-normal propaganda is when he entered a country that actually takes gun laws seriously.

[MrModerate]

1. What's sad about this is the goniff has already reproduced . . .

It's much better, evolutionarily, if congenital idiocy claims its victims before they pass on their genes.

[1620rock]

2. Well here in Michigan they do have signs on the US side of the border warning you about this.

[MrModerate]

3. Sounds like a good idea. Probably lost on a lot of people, sadly. n/t

[Glassunion]

4. This guy was an idiot.

One thing that tends to annoy me most about some Americans, is that they somehow think that the entire world operates under our rules. With anything, not just firearms. I have traveled to Canada several times, and have brought firearms (even handguns) with me. How hard is it to read a few rules and fill out some forms?

The guy is an idiot and should have to serve out whatever time he is given, if found guilty.

[rd_kent]

6. Yup, much like the OP.

[burrfoot]

5. I actually belive that this guy genuinely

forgot about the gun in the console, or for whatever reason just wasn't thinking straight. While I think it's unfortunate that what sounds like a pretty good guy who made a dumbass mistake is looking at a year in prison, I do think that as gun owners we need to be extra aware of the laws everywhere we go.

Owning- much less transporting or carrying- a gun is, obviously, a pretty serious responsibility. I think we need to hold ourselves to a standard of following the laws and accepting the consequences regardless of intent (or lack of it).

I betcha that this guy won't make the mistake twice, and I really hope that this encourages other owners to be more aware.


That being said, I think that the tone of the original post is particularly obnoxious and condescending. What's got you so antsy recently, RIS? Have you completely given up on rational discussion here? Should we take this as evidence that you've slid from the category of legitimately concerned individual who wants to discuss the issues to emotionally laden snarky poster?


:shrug: