I hear what you’re saying, and I’m the last person to advocate for everyone to be allowed to carry lethal firearms with them at all times. No thanks.
What I would like to see is that civilians have an option for personal self defense that is non-lethal. Like pepper spray. But that’s prohibited here.
The only option for legal self defense here is through training. The only weapon you’re allowed to have is yourself. So until you, yourself, becomes a weapon, in every encounter with someone with ill intentions, you will be unarmed.
I don’t hate cops. I don’t really love them either, especially right now in the wake of the BLM movement, but I won’t get into that. But it’s impractical at best to have enough LEOs to stop all crimes as they happen. You would need an officer on almost every corner 24/7. It would be a gigantic waste of time and money. Taxpayer money. Giving the general person an option for self defense that’s proven to be non-lethal that doesn’t require them to take hours of self defense or martial arts classes, would be nice.
Right now, at least for me, here in Canada, such an option does not exist. Anything that can be considered a weapon, is a weapon unless it is part of a very narrow scope of exceptions; and if any of those exceptions are used as a weapon against another person for any reason, then the exception no longer applies.
Not everyone has hours to dedicate to learning self defense. So unless there’s a cop nearby, you’re fucked.
I hear what you’re saying, and I’m the last person to advocate for everyone to be allowed to carry lethal firearms with them at all times. No thanks.
What I would like to see is that civilians have an option for personal self defense that is non-lethal. Like pepper spray. But that’s prohibited here.
The only option for legal self defense here is through training. The only weapon you’re allowed to have is yourself. So until you, yourself, becomes a weapon, in every encounter with someone with ill intentions, you will be unarmed.
I don’t hate cops. I don’t really love them either, especially right now in the wake of the BLM movement, but I won’t get into that. But it’s impractical at best to have enough LEOs to stop all crimes as they happen. You would need an officer on almost every corner 24/7. It would be a gigantic waste of time and money. Taxpayer money. Giving the general person an option for self defense that’s proven to be non-lethal that doesn’t require them to take hours of self defense or martial arts classes, would be nice.
Right now, at least for me, here in Canada, such an option does not exist. Anything that can be considered a weapon, is a weapon unless it is part of a very narrow scope of exceptions; and if any of those exceptions are used as a weapon against another person for any reason, then the exception no longer applies.
Not everyone has hours to dedicate to learning self defense. So unless there’s a cop nearby, you’re fucked.