Canadians ‘sleeping with guns’ as suspected killers still hiding in wilderness

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Heck, wife and I have been sleeping with guns for decades when we lived in high crime metropolitan central California cities to protect ourselves from 2 legged intruders.

Even now that we moved to low crime coastal town for retirement, we still sleep with guns for 4 legged wildlife that may attack our chickens and turkeys.
 
But can the Canadian situation endure in enough peoples’ memories long enough to improve their gun rights, even with just handguns?

This present fear should be ‘harnessed’ by people under the Maple Leaf Flag.

The fact that I own three Sigs (proofed in Kiel Germany), a CZ, Makarov and Star (plus .22s and a Sauer), with almost no restrictions is not helping our Canadian allies.
 
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Aim1 said:
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What's "all of a sudden" about people who live in rural wilderness depending upon themselves? This is NY thinking not BC thinking.

I have friends in BC and they're more like rural US than the urban Canadians just like those of us in the rural US are not like the urban America. The difference here is that instead of the shotgun or rifle being kept in the hall closet they've moved it to the bedroom and they're double checking their locks before bed.

The Post is just sensationalizing the headline from a BC news item in their perpetual The Sky Is FALLING!!! manner.
 
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I have slept with guns since I was a kid and never even needed one. Almost all Canadians won’t either but it’s that “one time” that could make it worthwhile.

Only a foolish Canadian would think these two are the first that could be a threat to their lives, or the last.
 
Even those of us who have that bedstand handgun or the pump shottie leaned up against the bedroom wall, get a tad more wary when we believe there is an increase in the chances of a threat coming into our homes. We can easily get lackadaisical and let down our guard because of never having to worry. I'd be thinking this is what's going on up north for the most part. Media hype is doing the rest.
 
Speedo66 said:
Well, I slept with a cap gun when I was a kid, now prefer something softer and warmer.

hso said “This is NY thinking, not BC thinking.” I think you mean NYC, upstate NY Is a completely different world.
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That's true. Many folk in WNY bridle at the controls due to the city's weight in the legislature. Too bad SCOTUS refused to take some NY cases to break the hold (not talking about the NYC travel case).
 
I have as much chance of having an intruder as I do of getting hit by lightning. I still keep a gun in the bed side table.
 
I guarantee that every house in the Northern Manitoba communities where the suspects were spotted already had a rifle or shotgun close by anyway. One of the things that gave the guys away was that they were spotted at the town dump, and the locals knew that no one ever went there on foot since there were so many bears around. Gun are super common in rural Canada, it’s the urban areas where ownership is less.
 
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