13-05-2008, 08:00 PM
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North American Approach to Firearms.
In Ontario Canada, Officially Police Officer aren’t permitted to carry off duty, unless the have written permission from their COP to do so, even with the increased gun violence by the criminal gangs in the metropolitan cities. Primarily due to the politically correct fluffy bunnies believing it’s culturally offensive and a potential danger to the Canadian general public and their image of the Police. Sad but true… Were as the US officers are permitted to carry off duty, for 2 main reasons, now these are in no specific order;
- US Police Officers / Law Enforcement Officers (LEO) are considered never off duty, even when they are officially off duty. If a criminal incident occurs around an off duty officer and he does nothing to intervene he can be held responsible in a criminal or civil legal action. It is therefore in his or her best intrest to carry off duty.
- Officer’s personal/family protection, as the threat to an officer’s safety while off duty by person or persons he has arrested in the past, is seen as a viable threat. An example is an off duty officer is out shopping in a local store with his family or having a coffee in say Starbucks with a friend and is spotted by a criminal be put away. The criminal could decide to extract some sort of revenge on the off duty officer.
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HALO61
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