The quote of the day comes from a resident of High River, Alberta. That Canadian town of about 13,000 about 25 miles south of Calgary has been evacuated from the greater part of a week due to the flooding of the Highwood River. Residents there are not only angry that they are not being allowed to return to their homes but that the RCMP or Royal Canadian Mounted Police had gone house to house and confiscated their firearms.
One resident with memories of police confiscation of firearms in New Orleans had this to say:
“This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms,” said Charles Timpano, pointing to the group of Mounties.
Video of the confrontation between residents of High River and the RCMP is below.
As a followup, the Solicitor General of the Province of Alberta announced today that he is working with the Mounties to assure a speedy and timely return of the seized firearms to their owners.
I have Canadian family, and have a number of friends up there. I dated a fellow a few years back that worked in defense up there. It was serious until one day he told me when I mentioned firearms outside of job duties "I don't think civilians should own guns".
ReplyDeleteSee ya! Bye! He got traded in for someone with a safe full.