Border guards

[heymagic]

I see on the 'tube this morning that the Canadian border was closed last night . Seems there was a threat of an armed person heading for the border at Blaine. The Canadians left the room. Seems the Canadian border "guards" don't have sidearms...just bullet proof vests. So they are more like border babysitters...

How can you guard a border of a country without weapons? With all the threats of drug running, terrorism and just plain bad guys seems like a few AR16s or HK93s would be in order. But wait..let's go take their marinas and boats..except for the IBNW Canadian members of course..

[bopa5]

Canadian Customs and Immigration people are not armed. They are not ,what you might consider, as in the States , Border Guards.

The responsibility for "guarding the Border" lies with the RCMP.

I think that it is due to a different mentality concerning weapons.

With the new Government just elected, that may change....to allowing sidearms, for personal protection.

If one was a "Bad Guy", it is very easy to slip across the Border, either way
without detection.

But, alas, its just becoming too much of a hassel to cross into the US, so unless we really want to do something soecific we now tend to cruise more in the Gulf Islands and North.

Our history , in developing the West was so much differerent than the US
and the Gun culture is not the same.


Bob

[heymagic]

Maybe we should take Cheney's gun away and give it to the border guards...

[bradvo]

Hey, that was friendly fire

[SomeSailor]

If the Canadian's aren't considered "guards"... what are they?

Border Concierge?

[beyond kelp]

Stop or i'll.... yell Stop again! :D

[SomeSailor]

Stop or i'll.... yell Stop again! :D

You forgot the most important part...

Stop or I'll.... yell Stop again... Eah!!

[amw2655]

My other half is from Canada.... I've been teasing her about this all weekend! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[bradvo]

What they are to me are a much more friendly sort that say welcome. what are ya gonna do here? How long are you going to stay. have a good trip.

then on the return we have our guards that say- Good Morning, where ya been? what have you to declare? You mean you did not buy anything??? Pull your car over there and sit a bit we will be right with you.
Then they tear your car apart, check your butt for hidden narcotics and then when that do not find anything they say. have a nice day.
You put your self together and mumble what dicks they are on the way home.
Only happened once- I was 21 and it took me years before i would go into Canada again.

I think they did a better job then of searching then they do now- you know the younger generation of slackers :lol:

[SomeSailor]

My other half is from Canada.... I've been teasing her about this all weekend! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Mine too.

[beyond kelp]

Boy, until now i've just been drinking their whiskey, maybe you guys are on to something..... :D

[Numbknots]

I can see this could go way astray???

Most all of my Canadian crossings have been with my private planes and by far I have had a far worse time "getting back into my own country then getting into Canada.

My brother is married to a Canadian, and has dual citizenship. Seems Canada will now let you buy your way into the country as a citizen (I guess they are raising money to help support the Socialized medicine). My brother still tells me if a Canadian is in need of 'high tech, high Quality medical care they come to the USA. Isn't it funny that if we want less expensive "legal drugs" we go to Canada??? Guess it all works out.

"Can't we all just get along".

Tim

PS: I wonder if **** C. took a firearms safety class??? I was taught you never point the end with a hole in it at anything you didn't mean to kill!

[SomeSailor]

The guy was a lawyer... he just didn't lead him properly... :)

[beyond kelp]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: It was an Attorney-he was aiming to wound, the logical choice. No need to end it so soon and spoil the fun...

[beyond kelp]

Do you know what attorneys and sperm have in common? They both have a one in ten thousand chance of becoming a human. :lol:

[heymagic]

Cheney gets a ticket for shooting an attorney without the appropriate stamp....a law probably written by an attorney.