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Laptop_Warrior
The Canadians are strict, I'll grant you that. The last time I drove over the border from New York, a customs agent confiscated my small can of Japanese mosquito repellent.
Kabukilover
Thank you gun nuts for creating problems for those of us Americans who visit Canada without guns.
HonestDictator
Seriously? The idiot gun owners don't have the brains to realize that they're going to Canada and are no longer in the US? AKA, their laws are different than our laws!
Just can't fight the amount of stupidity in the world today... so much of it everywhere!
FizzBit
My name is Hillary Clinton, and I approve of this message.
Yoshitsune
"Screw you Canada, you can't take away our second amendment rights! Build that wall! Build that wall! Make China pay for it!"
Sensato
Many in the U.S. complain bitterly about drugs being smuggled into the U.S. via Mexico (and pin the blame squarely on Mexico), but very little is said about guns smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico.
One source estimates that 2,000 guns per day are smuggled into Mexico from the U.S., and I am sure that a high number of guns are smuggled into Canada across the border as well.
I don't like the thought of drugs being smuggled into the U.S., but I would be much more upset if it were large numbers of guns. The more our neighbors to the north and south protest this the better.
Jimizo
"The announcement comes on the heels of two separate incidents in which Texas retirees denied carrying weapons at a border checkpoint in Saint Stephen, New Brunswick."
Texans. Not a surprise.
Laguna
Ironically, the above are also banned in most US states. Guns are okay, though.
PTownsend
And it should be. Keep Canada safe from US gun nuts and smugglers. Increase the fines, jail those too stupid to understand well known laws, confiscate the weapons and DON'T return them, and then make them pay for their stay.
Strangerland
It doesn't appear that they are treating this as a laughing matter.
They should start locking up these people for a week before letting them back into the US. Once that becomes news in the US after a few incidents, people will start taking the Canadians seriously on this matter.
Sensato
That punishment was a slap on the wrist. If drugs had been involved the men and their wives would probably be serving prison time.
cleo
If the men had been sporting beards/turbans and/or if their wives had been burqua'd they would definitely be serving time.
Don't we get to know the names of these freedumb-luvvin' Texan geniuses?
WilliB
Cleo:
Any basis at all for that claim? Or did you pull that out of thin air?
cleo
Yup.
Harry_Gatto
One must also admire the fact that the Canadians can also spell it correctly.
goldorak
Don't think it's a genuine lack of awareness but rather a blatant disregard for Canadian laws. These folks just don't care.
zurcronium
Canada needs to build a wall and have Trump pay for it. And the NRA.
Gun laws in the USA may be the most stupid thing about the country, and there are a lot of stupid things about the USA unfortunately to list. And yes, many of them are associated with Texas or Texans.
Strangerland
How so? Are you saying that Americans should be allowed to exercise their second amendment "rights" in other countries that don't believe in that fallacy?
nath
Seize their guns, fine them and deport them, else lock `em up until they can prove they're not supporting Quebec's secession by smuggling weapons.
clamenza
Cleo - Its not Texan retirees I'm worried about getting blown up by while doing my holiday shopping.
toshiko
Canada gave other no gun countries in the world how to handle American gun nuts traveling to their countries.
nishikat
One has to admire the Canadian sense of humor. Japan's sense of humor is even better. Try it by seeing their funny reaction as you try to bring a gun through their customs.
WA4TKG
Yup, no hunters in Canada, no NEED for such things there...
clamenza
Oh dear. someone read the headline and not the story.
2nd paragraph down. There ya go.....
zurcronium
Clamenza,
You may think you are more at risk from terrorism but in fact you over 100 times more likely to die from that Texan carrying guns. Or in using your gun on yourself. Fox news has fooled you with their scare tactics and not reporting on the horrible death rate that unlimited gun access creates. ISIS has said that killing people in the USA is easy because of the stupid gun laws the country has.
clamenza
zurconium - I don't live in Texas or the US. Their guns can't hurt me where I live. Radical Islamic terrorism can
Harry_Gatto
Perhaps you didn't read this far into the article:
........in which Texas retirees denied carrying weapons at a border checkpoint in Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. A search of their vehicles uncovered several handguns, a shotgun and loose ammunition, which were seized.
Madverts
I think it's fair to say most commentators didn't, Harry.
These are the "responsible gun owners" we keep hearing about.
Ian Robertson
Very relieved to read this; no need whatsoever for any tourist to be in possession of a firearm. I support keeping guns out of the hands of the average Canadian as well; we have enough violent crime as it is - no need to make it easier to have more.
noriyosan73
Too many people from all countries (except NK, et al) think their respective constitution travel with them. Show the passport and show the copy of the constitution is not how it works as evidenced by all the various kinds of weapons airport security personnel confiscate daily at airports around the world.
OssanAmerica
I've driven across the border numerous times and the Canadian border inspector has always grilled everyone entering Canada if they had any firearms or other weapons in their possession so this isn't new by any means. Just that these two idiots made the news. Any hunter in the US knows that to bring hunting arms into Canada you need documentary proof that you're going hunting, in which case no problem.
theFu
Many years ago, my parents drove to Canada in an RV. It had Texas plates. At the border, the Canadians emptied the RV completely searching for firearms. After all, the license plates were from Tx and everyone in Texas has multiple guns. Right?
After over 2 hrs of searching, not finding anything, the frustrated border guards pleaded for them to just give up the guns already. It never crossed their minds that anyone from Texas might not have a gun inside their RV.
There weren't any firearms, BTW.
nishikat
Many years ago, my parents drove to Canada in an RV. It had Texas plates...... Did this really happen?
nishikat
After over 2 hrs of searching, not finding anything, the frustrated border guards pleaded for them to just give up the guns already. It never crossed their minds that anyone from Texas might not have a gun inside their RV. And what happened after this?
TheRat
The fu, well, you can't blame the border guards for that stereotype. Read any internet based Texas paper, Dallas, Houston, and you fill find thosuands upon thousands of pro-gun articles and comments from readers. Plus, they gave us George Bush, so yeah, there SHOULD be a lot of negativity about that state, though there are some good people there, have a sister who is sane and liberal but these people are locked up in small sections of Austin. Most of Texas is a Christian taliban land that us nut-so. Drove through west Texas and it seemed like a Chrisitan Iran!
bass4funk
When you factor in accidental gun mishaps, people committing suicide, gang violence, homicide use, you are right, but not when it comes to Jihadism worldwide, foreign and domestic and growth and desire to commit murder randomly to pacify and kill as many Americans as possible because we are the enemy or Great Satan is extremely high, has been since the late 1990s and is worsening with the bombing of the WTC in 1993 and then on 9/11, the Fort Hood shooting, Boston, San Bernardino, Richard Reed, the shoe bomber and on and on.. We haven't even touched the topic of honor killings yet, when you look at it from that prism, Jihadism is by far the biggest danger. But again, I could care less about what Canadians think, if there laws require No guns, that's their laws and if you disobey it, you should be citied or whatever their laws demand. But in the US, I just don't want to hear Canadians tell us how to deal with OUR laws when it pertains to guns.
nishikat
and kill as many Americans Only Americans?
But in the US, I just don't want to hear Canadians tell us how to deal with OUR laws when it pertains to guns. If too many illegal guns that originate from the USA end up in Canada it is very much their business.
Great Satan Jesus is a zombie.
clamenza
deadbeatles - your original comment could have been taken at least two different ways. It was so vague as to lose both its sarcasm and meaning, and therefore, whatever point you were trying to make.
Strangerland
I have no idea what your point was/is.
Outsider
The antonym of this request would be for Canadians entering the US to "packem if you haveem".