Alberta Provincial Legislature Passed Motion to Support Firearms Ownership

[Honeydealer]

Hopefully Saskatchewan does the same ASAP

[xdmer]

Bravo, hopefully the first of many!

[slim123]

wow.....

finally a politician..for the people

glad to be an Albertan.... If its actually true, and not all smoke and mirrors, like typical political bs...and gets support of the legislature and actually passes.....this will be HUGE!!

[werewolf]

Remember to contact him and the UCP to thank them. Alberta F@#$ Ya!!!!!!!

[P90rippin]

What a beauty. Let's make the RCMP history as well in Alberta!

[DaveMachine]

Why?

You're conspicuous, put people (both the police and joe blow on the street) on edge, you're a giant target and confer none of the benefit to the rest of the populace that you do with concealed carry. Go watch the interactions some of these super-patriot, American hero open carry retards have with police, for example. Most of them are people wanting to make a statement and it mostly results in getting people on both sides needlessly amped up. I absolutely think people should be able to carry concealed given some sort of qualification - I don't think there is much benefit to open carry however. The only case I can see is hunting/outdoors kind of stuff where you might need to fend off Yogi or a mama moose in the backcountry.

This isn't a case of open carry, but rather a concealed carrier that showed his cards too soon, interjected himself into the situation and got to take the room temperature challenge because of it. He even had the benefit of blending in right off the bat and still got smoked.



As for the people pointing out that the police open carry, thank you so much I was unaware. Trying to draw parallels between what they do and the function they serve and your average joe blow on the street is laughable so thanks for that. As a regular dude on the street, carrying a firearm is for the protection of YOUR life or the people in your immediate vicinity, not to go play concerned citizen, Canadian-hero.

[RUsiak]

We, the people of Alberta and Saskatchewan, have to stand up for our rights according to the constitution! About time we have a government official who realizes where his paycheck comes from an who put him there to do as we, the people, have voted him to do.

[CLW .45]

Open carry is retarded.

Carry is not retarded, whether open or concealed.

Which is appropriate in any given circumstance is best determined by the person carrying.

[beltfed]

Such a shame political parties are a mixed bag of stupid and smart ideas. Brilliant the UCP are standing for gun rights, but they’re the same government that axed post-secondary student funding, cut funding for the board of education, cut essential funding for youth programs and are worryingly trying to fire criminal investigators of Kenney.

Why can’t Canadians have governments that use common sense and morals. Smh.

First off, ALL post secondary institutions are feeling the hit - which, surprise, surprise, coincides with the retraction of industry need for workers and the stagnating economy.
Second - Why the hell should my tax dollars be subsidizing a for-profit institution that is training and making money off educating foreign students/workers that come to Alberta, get an education and then go back to support their countries economy?
Thirdly, the school boards are notoriously bad with their money; spending it like drunken sailors on shore leave. They need to tighten their belts and prioritize the tax money they receive - on students and front line teachers, not on their corporate offices and not on busing kids all over the place because they can't get their collective sh!t together. It is well overdue that they open their books for auditing, which is finally going to happen.
Lastly, this nonsense about the elections commissioner has been debunked. NDP shill is let go, portfolio and investigations rolled under other management.

[anton520b]

Interesting development! If things start rolling in desirable way towards more freedom for law abiding citizens of Alberta I might consider making a permanent move to the future land of the free, namely Alberta, and do it while there is still no need to apply for visa to enter this haven of freedom and fair justice. WEXIT