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Dad Arrested, Strip-Searched After Daughter Draws a Picture of a Gun in School

Dad Jesse Sansone Arrested, Strip Searched After Daughter Draws a Picture of a Gun in School

Jesse Sansone was arrested and strip-searched after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun in school. (Image source: Waterloo Region Record)

A Canadian father was arrested and strip-searched Wednesday after his 4-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun in her kindergarten class.

Ontario dad Jesse Sansone told the Toronto Sun his little girl’s drawing was supposed to be him, getting monsters and bad guys. Her teacher apparently thought differently, and the school contacted child protective services. When Sansone arrived to pick his daughter up, three police officers were waiting to take him into custody.

“I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” he told the Waterloo Region Record. “I was in shock. This is completely insane.”

Police questioned Sansone’s daughter and his other children, who gave a “detailed description” of a firearm supposedly located in the house and easily accessible to them, Inspector Kevin Thaler of the Waterloo Regional Police said, according to the Calgary Herald.

“The kids were scared,” Thaler. “It is a 4-year-old that we’re taking the information from, but the fact is that this disclosure was very descriptive and very alarming to the officers investigating this.”

He said the arrest was made “because it was the end of the school day” and officers felt they needed to “secure and locate the firearm.”

When Sansone got to the school, he was told only that he was being arrested for possession of a firearm and given no additional details. At the police station, he was forced to remove his clothes for a full strip search. While he sat in a jail cell, police even brought his pregnant wife to the station for more questioning.

The “gun” his children told police about? A toy pistol that shoots foam darts, which police discovered during a search of his house.

“The child had every belief it was real,” Thaler said. “The indication from the kids was that it was dad’s [gun].”

Sansone was finally released after four hours. He said he’s furious and that his name has been slandered.

“So many people dealt with this situation in the wrong way,” he told the Sun. “I know the principal really well, how could he judge my character in this way? I drop off and pick the kids up every day, I always say hello, I sign every report card, I go to every parent teacher meeting, I am an active parent at that school.”

But the school, police and child welfare officials all stand by their actions, according to the Record.

“From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there’s guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child,” said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Children’s Services.

The Sansone family is looking for a new school for their children to attend.

“The first thing my daughter said when I saw her was, ‘Daddy are you mad at me?’” Sansone said. “That sums it up to me.”

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  • JackSprat
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:38am

    Orwellian thought police are alive and well north of our border. I would say we need to completely close the border with Canada, but how do you keep ideas from freely flowing? Look out for the thought police with more power than they now have. They will soon be visiting a neighborhood near you! What a “Brave New World” we live in!

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    • ColoradoBoots
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:52am

      This is the sort of shake down that discourages anyone from purchasing a firearm. The anti gun war is a war of psychology as well. I’d write more, but I want to get a Nerf rifle for my kiddo and I better get the permit process started.

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    • DRSAVAGE24
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:57am

      Remember when Michael Savage was banned in Britain for his “rhetoric”? Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al. said NOTHING about it. I remember a caller in to Glenn‘s show asking why he wasn’t talking about this attack on Dr. Savage’s free speech and Great Britain lumping him in with murderers on their banned list. Glenn‘s response was that this wasn’t an American issue and since it was in a foreign country he didn’t feel it was worthy of attention. Now his website apparently thinks what goes on in a foreign country is worthy of attention now that it doesn’t involve one of his competitors and a guy who has been frozen out of the conservative media. Of course, this is just his website, so his radio/tv shows and his website are two different things, but I wonder if he has been talking about this on the radio, too. I don’t listen to him much anymore, but I suspect he has talked about this and was quite indignant about it.

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    • janedough1
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:06am

      Home school, people. If you don’t want this happening, don’t give “officials” daily access to your child.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:07am

      Amazing,
      Just in case anyone thought Canada was doing better than the USA now, this type of thing proves otherwise. Canada’s rights are given by government and NOT defended by the populous.
      I like it when my children draw good pictures of guns. It brings out art and cognative thought exercise at the same time.

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    • 2theADDLED
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:17am

      Playing hangman will get you the charge of a hate crime.

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    • ShyMan
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:28am

      Drsavage24

      Amen. Glenn only wants us to worry about Greece for some reason.

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    • asybot12
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:35am

      I cannot believe your ignorance 1 ONE bloody incident and a whole country gets demonised by jerks like you, Remember the incident in the USA that was settled with a FR,,..cken “beer summit ” after your fearless leader called a cop stupid???

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:35am

      Spare me the BS.

      Society “IS” liberal. Liberals are ~paranoid~ in most chaotic sense of the word, about guns! To the liberal mind, even a drawing of a gun “IS”not only dangerous, it threatens “whirled peas.”

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    • Cat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:36am

      Drsavage >

      Michael Weiner (Dr. Savage) is still banned in Briton.
      Understand, blab media is a highly competitive business.
      The popular blabbers, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Don Imus, Neal Boortz, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingram, etc, etc, enjoy their positions as self promoters and work hard to protect their positions as such.

      Be that as it may – Frequency modulation … See further

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:44am

      The good thing about this story and i’m glad that The Blaze pointed it out,is there is now a new channel in Canada to help get this kind of info out to the people…..The Sun News Network has been on the air for about a year now and it takes on the leftwing media big time….anyone who doesnt have access to this channel should atleast check out their website from time to time…They concentrate alot of the things in the world conservatives find important.

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    • BlackCrow
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:04am

      They are here already! Want to make the neighbor with the barking dog miserable? Call child protective services. It doesn’t matter if the kids are in their thirties and live in another state CPS will dog them to death. Worse than the IRS.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:06am

      CAT, I’ll stick with Amplitude Modulation and continue to listen to those you listed that are available here. I am almost 60 and am not a mind numbed robot and take what ever any of these guys say with some amount of skepticism. I agree with a lot of what I hear, but certainly not all of it.

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    • Cat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:13am

      RJ >

      Crap, quite a massive srewup there.
      Your’e correct, it’s AM, not FM
      Add Larry Arnn and others to the list as well

      http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/

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    • snooop1e
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:49am

      A glimpse into America’s future. The teachers and the police were so obsessed over the EVIL gun that they completely overlooked the mental, emotional welfare of that little girl. Liberals hate guns so much that they were willing to tramatize a little girl just to get at that evil gun. This little girl and her siblings had to undergo interrogation by the thought police and watch their Daddy being arrested. Liberals could care less about those children, what they care about is anyone being able to think and provide for themselves. In the Liberal utopia people are carbon emitting life forms that must be controlled. Unborn babies are even worse. Any carbon emitting life form that refuses to be controlled must be dealt with swiftly, including 4 year old little girls. Think about this, if that had been a real gun Daddy would be in prison for a very long time and his little girl would be placed in a foster home where she would be taught about evil guns, man caused global warming, gay sex and peaceful Islam. Way to go Canada. If the Liberals in this country have their way this will be America.

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    • bjorn-free
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:07am

      @drsavage24: GB LOVES to quote the famous: “first they came for the Jews but i was not Jewish so I said nuttn” but the hypocrisy is clear when all the so called conservative talking heads ignored Dr. Savage but one day soon THEY will come for all the conservative talking heads and all I can say is:” S-U-C-K-S TO BE YOU” we will be under the radar by then and maybe you can get help from_______.

      BTW any conservatives talking about the Judge getting fired from Faux News??? after this closing monologue? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52b_1329796059

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:11am

      This is what the NObamasses want in America! This is just as crazy as it gets and these people act like they were justified! Not only are they crazy they think its normal! I give you this song about how diversity has screwed up our world. “Diversity” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11826046

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    • robert
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:17am

      For a long time now the new totalitarian PC bunch have controlled Canada, and they are firmly in its evil grasp.

      PC dogma has been repetitiously pounded into the public mind so thoroughly a very large number of people there sound just like Nancy Pelosi.

      Big Brother has his psy ops running up there 24/7 and the lemmings are so brainwashed there are few who would not be in line to drink the kool aid mandated by the controlling authority.

      Really sad.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:27am

      This is not hard to understand. As a man I’ve seen this kind of mindset numerous times before. We have a very similar kind of Orwellian police state/nanny state in California, under male-hating, Femi-fascist Senator’s Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, and other Democrats as shown in “Witch-Hunting Males” at Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SC0a1_Vjs and “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVmh0VCkL4 The Marxist tripe about an evil controlling “Patriarchy” (men bad), that gets preached in our nanny state schools gets made into police state laws by Marxist/Stalinist law makers. :-/

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:41am

      CAT, Good, then we do agree more than I thought at first. Just wish our small AM community provided us with more of those on your list. Right now I really miss Ken Hamblin (The Black Avenger) Neil Boortz, and The G Man. I don’t miss that time of the day when my radio sat silent while Dr Laura vocally emasculated weak wannabe men. That was a waste of air time.

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    • dandelion8002
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:45am

      “…the school, police and child welfare officials all stand by their actions….”

      And the alleged authorities response was ” ‘From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there’s guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child…’ ”

      Is arresting, strip searching and jailing a man for four hours because of his daughter’s drawing the definition of “further conversation” in our Brave New World?

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:46am

      When English Parliement discussed Glenn Beck and accused him of doing much the same thing Michael Savage was accused of doing…. I never heard Glenn Beck say one thing about it… Although recordings of discussion made their way to Media Matters and Huffington Post…

      I never understood why he didn’t attempt to defend himself… it was obvious that the parliment was only going by clips that were taken out of context of what he was really showing… The kind of clips Media Matters is known for producing…

      You know first they come for Savage, and no one was there to defend him… Glenn Beck may very well be the next, and he may not have anyone to defend him either… I really don’t understand the extreme competition the talk show hosts have against each other (even going as far to insult each other)… When they should be on the same side on many of these issues…

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    • CajunWoman
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:53am

      Guilty without benefit of a trial. This is beginning to happen in this country. Think about it. You send your child to school with a lunch that someone deems isn‘t healthy so a lunch that IS NOT healthy is provided in it’s place. Our children are taught in school to report a parent if the child has been “spanked” so we raise a generation of children that have no fear and these same “undisciplined” children grow up killing others. I don’t know about anyone else, but I received numerous spankings for doing exactly what I had been asked not to do and about 99.9% of those I deserved. My Mother raised two daughters on her own and we are both law-abiding citizens. Neither of use believe the government owes us anything. When I was a teenage, the healthy fear I had of my Mom and her potential punishment, stopped me from doing a lot of things that would have landed me in jail. Just saying…of course, I’m 60 so what the hell would I know.

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    • vehoae
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:58am

      To: DRSAVAGE24 …. Thanks for making this highly relevant point. Conservative radio talk show hosts that I listen to rarely, if ever, mention other radio talk show hosts’ names during their own shows. It’s almost laughable. Equally laughable is how each of them always says something like, “I was the first to talk about this” or “You heard about this first on my show,” etc. Then they treat their listening audience like Obama treats voters – like they’re stupid. How? The talk show hosts says that he/she never listens to other talk shows, so doesn‘t know what is or isn’t being said by other talk show hosts. Talk show hosts DO know what is being said on other talk shows. Just like the President and all other politicians, radio talk show hosts have people on staff assigned to read and listen to other shows/programs to keep the boss apprised!

      And since we’re discussing things talk show hosts do or say that are irritating, how about Hannity saying “Coming up next ___” every single time he takes a break, even though what he says is coming up next, is NOT coming up until the last hour or half hour of his show. If ever there was an example of quintessential false advertising, this incredibly irritating habit of Hannity takes first place!

      Lord, come quickly.

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    • SweetDoug
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:59am

      Thank you! Thank you! Thank you everyone!

      Welcome to CANADA!

      Why I feel more TEXAN than CANADIAN after spending several months in that lovely state!

      This is the creepy, liberal progressive, PC, thought control that goes on up here. I’m just surprised that it actually made it to the papers.

      Boy! Is that guy gonna be targetted by the cops for making a fool out of them!

      There’s just nothing left to say after this.

      This kind of crap has been growing and growing in our country, pushed by the creepy leftists, the PC crowd, for the last couple of decades.

      We’re doomed.

      •∆•
      V-V

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:25pm

      SNOOOPIE, excellent post with profound truths that few want to acknowledge, let alone do anthing about.

      The entire nation is in a fog while the ******** are destroying the country. From education, whether it be kindergarten through 12 or the universities and colleges, children services, the media, the frigging government, including our elected officials, the bureaucracies, agencies, and cabinet levels, are all organized, programed, and indoctrinated to carry the torch for liberal agenda, which is designed to expose, castigate and destroy any remaining vestiges of conservative values, including the traditional family, the Constitution, freedom, liberties, personalty and individualism, and the Judeo-Christian value system.

      We are not in a battle; we are in a war fro the very survival of our culture, our way of life and our original form of government, the options for fighting this battle and being able to obtain a victory, are diminishing rapidly. It is getting very close to the point that the Revolutionary War of 1776 and its’ replay may indeed be our only option. The powers of government have been waxing far beyond their original intention, whereby the populace that it was originally meant to serve in a very limited way, have now become a force for subjugation and imprisonment of the American people. To say that this ought not be is probably the biggest understatement since the founding of our then Republic of the United States of America.

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:28pm

      When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under

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    • truthful7777
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:38pm

      This is def insain more and mroe we see our rights given away
      we are a christian nation no matter what they say we have a god that does not kill in the name of god
      i think this is very upsetting to me and do not like it if we cannot protect
      ourselves they will kill us in the name of jesus christ its coming quicker than people thinik open your eyes people before its too late for you i am praying that your lawyer can make them stupid god bless l

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:53pm

      But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (excerpted from the Declaration of Independence

      As now appears, by the travesties and treasonous acts habitually committed by OUR government led by the Imposter-in-Chief and the hoard of indignant usurpers who surround him, against our once sovereign nation and its’ people, dedicated to the freedoms, liberties and personalties of the free people who formed it, it is quickly accelerating to that place where the reigns of those who unjustly hold them for their own interests, rather than for that of the people for whom it was designed to serve and protect, must be forcefully taken from them.

      That action as should well be known, will once again require the commitment and sacrifice of life, liberties and properties exercised against this draconian leadership to enable their complete removal, should this boiling point be reached. There is absolutely no room for compromise in this most hallowed endeavor, once again to be taken upon for our families, our freedoms and liberties and our posterity, if we are to protect and preserve our nation and its’ people under the mantle that was originally forged by our Founding Fathers. We owe those who laid the groundwork and to ourselves if we are to keep it.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:54pm

      They have said to that little girl that it isn’t your Daddy who is in control it is use the all superpowerful and all knowing state who can swoop down on you for a though, a gesture, a picture, a word and even a symbol.

      You want to hide from the state? Put a “coexist” bumper sticker on your car. Right next to it put a Peace sign and a No more Wars sticker. You’ll be off the radar in a heart beat. We are coming to a place where going underground may be the best solution. We aren’t there yet and the battle still rages, but a day will come when this will be true. Guard your networks well my friends.

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    • Cat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:05pm

      RJ >

      It’s tough for most worker bees to listen to non-stop AM because we do work.
      Fortunately, there’s more windshield time here then the average worker bee, so the AM is on a minimum of 8 hours a day.

      Phoned 970 WFLA once and complained about interrupting the talkies for hockey games, but to no avail.

      Have been stockpiling Mark Levin on a thumb drive and micro HDD since Oct 2008.
      Will be reading Mark’s new book, Ameritopia on top of 8 hours of AM blab starting mid week.

      Even converted Larry Arnn’s first five to .WMV then tossed them on one of the storage drives on this 18tg network for repeat viewing.

      Amplitude modulation … See further
      Even sounds better, doesn’t it

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:11pm

      we need severe punishments for people who bare false witness and violate others right to life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:13pm

      remember this, when the police say they want to “talk to you” or “converse” with you. you are going to be handcuffed, jailed and abused for hours and hours..

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:22pm

      COLORADOBOOTS : wrote ” This is the sort of shake down that discourages anyone from purchasing a firearm. ” Thats what they want and when the guns are gone so will are freedom, just read history this is not to hard to imagine ?

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    • FFTyranny
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:22pm

      @DRSAVAGE24 Ah yes, and the truth shall set you free. I think there is more to what you claim but you don’t see it because your more of a troll than a fan of any one of these people. None of these guys Glenn Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity and Mark Levin seem to mention any of them when talking during their shows. Hannity does talk about Rush from time to time and Hannity and Mark Levin, which I like both are best buds it seems. Mark has never said anything good about Glenn. I haven’t heard one word from Mark unless I missed a show. Mark does like to use some of Glenn’s news hes reported. Same goes for Savage. He and like the others really don’t support each other because of their own view of things. So it could very well be that Glenn doesn’t give a poop about him and what he did stupidly over seas.

      And because this is a new site I am sure Glenn doesn’t micro manage it. So to point a finger at Glenn because something wasn’t posted that you felt deserved posting shows your ignorance and your trolling experience. Plus the fact you said you never hardly watch or listen to his shows. You just happen to watch the very one you cared so much about concerning your heart throb, Savage as indicated in your name.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:31pm

      Holy cow. I 35 years ago remember growing up with guns all over the house, every one of them loaded and in easy reach. We brought hunting guns to school and kept them in the car for hunting after school. Teachers would come out at lunch and admire the guns and show us theirs. No one ever got shot. How far down the road to government serfdom we’ve fallen.

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    • watchtheotherhand
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:32pm

      When will people wake up and take back their individual rights? I realize this incident was in Canada, but it is a symptom of the liberal mindset here in America. Always savings us from ourselves, saving our kids from their parents, saving the planet from everyone, saving the poor from poverty, saving the rich form their wealth, saving the black man from the white man, saving the Muslim from the Christian, saving the law abiding citizen form his guns, saving the fat man from his food, saving the smoker from his smoke and on and on it goes without end. They can justify almost any government tyranny and any theft of liberty in the name of their salvation.

      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. —CS Lewis

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    • FFTyranny
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:44pm

      @vehoae

      lol you can’t be serious. How ignorant. “Coming up next ___” every single time he takes a break, even though what he says is coming up next, is NOT coming up until the last hour or half hour of his show”.

      They all do it. Once again we have a lib trying to dress like a conservative, a cross libbracon. Try to take a time stop from trolling to point out a negative on an individual to discredit them when someone from there own side does it. It’s called TV. they all try and keep you tuned in so you won’t change the channel. Some do it better and more honestly than others. When they say the word “next” they don’t mean it “adjective”, they mean it as an “adverb” which means {On the first or soonest occasion after the present; immediately afterward: “wondering what would happen next”}. Now I am no one to try and school anyone on speech or how to speak because I am a survivor of a stroke and suffer with aphasia and have lost allot of my sentence construction abilities. But I do know a troll when I see one.

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    • davisgarvey
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Thank God, this hasn’t happened here………….yet

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:55pm

      Good thing she didn’t draw a picture of him in a F16…….the military would have went to DEFCON 3

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    • GBMBulletsSKNRD
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:49pm

      I just wonder what would have happened if this law abiding man would have had a real gun in his home to protect his family from the thugs Obama has created.

      This makes me so mad I can hardly type.

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    • aggiebrewer
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:53pm

      DRSAVAGE24

      What you say about Beck not caring and not saying anything about Savage is just patently untrue. He covered that story in depth at the time. Just because you like Savage, don’t troll here and attack Beck.
      What emotional baggage you carry. Sad

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    • HumbleMan
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:44pm

      I grew up in a different age. In school, even in my art class, I drew revolvers and lever rifles with great detail. Like everyone else, on my 12′th birthday I got a bolt-action 22. As I recall, even though it was a rough steel-town neighborhood, no one locked their doors or their cars. My first (non junker) car was a 63 Buick that had an ignition you could start without a key. Lunch in my steel lunch-box was usually a pb-and-j on wonder bread. I walked just under a mile to Jr. High and took the bus alone at 10 years old, to go to the movies alone in the big city.

      The less responsibility people have, the less responsible they are.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:18pm

      I at first thought of NY City or DC, Phillie, Chicago – not Canada. I knew the folks up there were liberals but not off the chart. This man feels his name is slandered, well he should sue and the school should fire the teacher. If this wern’t a 4 year old or had been a 9 year oil I could have understood where they were coming from. The local police must have to many officers. Thank goodness the little 4 yr old didn’t draw a bomb – I guess they would have called in the milatary.

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:25pm

      JackSprat – “Orwellian thought police are alive and well north of our border.”

      Hey, amigo! North of which border? I thought this story was about U.S.A. (it actually happens in America … just not this time).

      Lock‘n’load, people! (Lock a magazine into the weapon and chamber a round.)

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    • PASSIONFORCHRIST
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:33pm

      “Minority Report”! SCAREY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:18pm

      Isn’t that what happens if Police States? The Canadian people no longer have any basic civil rights and the police can arrest anyone just to meet their end of month quota. America is the last place on earth were mankind still has civil rights and the freedom that God gave man.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:20pm

      I am thinking about guns right now. Every night I dream of owning guns. I have dreams of being a child again and painting pictures of hand guns and rifles.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:48pm

      When I was in elementary school, I used to draw guns all over my homework, worksheets, quizzes, and tests. No one ever said a word. I shudder to think what would have happened if it were today.

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    • Kevin The Elder
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:43pm

      Not knowing the law in Canada, I’ll assume that no one is allowed to legally own a gun, else it wouldn‘t make any sense for any strip search and search of this man’s house. Even so, to allow a picture drawn by a 4-year old to be the basis of violating this father is totally insane. The worse part of the story for me is to read that ‘the school, police and child welfare officials all stand by their actions’. How dare they?!? Each and every one of them that participated should face some sort of disciplinary action, up to and possibly including firing.

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    • Cake
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:40pm

      I hope you Americans cherish and protect your constitution. We Canadians do not share in its protection. Our charter or rights and freedoms gives privileges, not rights. It also points out reasons for which charter rights may be infringed upon. In short, Canadians are not free. Depending on political climate we can be drawn up before human rights tribunals for speaking our mind if it causes someone offense.

      This story demonstrates the plight of Canadians well though. We have an out of control police force. Once upon a time, the police was our friend. Items like the firearms act and years of liberal conditioning in the RCMP though have driving a wedge between the police and the citizen. Now innocent or guilty, the police is to be feared and never to be freely let into your home. In the case of a burglar, you are better (as a former Albertan premier said) to “shoot, shovel, and shut up” than get the police involved.

      Cherish and defend your liberties. The majority of the world in truth, has none.

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:32pm

      They should lower their eye brows and raise their guns!

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    • Uranium Wedge
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Just don’t shoot them an email.
      Damn Hosers

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:42am

      @JackSprat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:38am

      Orwellian thought police are alive and well north of our border. I would say we need to completely close the border with Canada, but how do you keep ideas from freely flowing? Look out for the thought police with more power than they now have. They will soon be visiting a neighborhood near you! What a “Brave New World” we live in!
      ****
      Haven’t paid much attention to the American news in the last few years have you? We’ve had kids taken out of class in handcuffs for drawing pictures of guns, for pointing a finger gun at recess, for cutting a gun from a sheet of paper. And from somewhere, a child actually got hold of old fashioned clothes pins, and made a “clothes pin” gun. Alas, my life was warped from the start, my older sibs taught me to make those things before I was 2.
      To late to close the border, that guy must have already broken into my house, when my husband’s lift chair was raised over the weekend, I discovered one of those soft foam darts, must have come from his gun, my grandkids haven’t had theirs here for nearly a month.
      Wonder what scared those kids, couldn‘t be that they were all questioned about sister’s drawing, their dad taken out in a police car, and them all taken away from both parents to go answer questions? “Nope!” That’d NEVER scare a little kid!”

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    • Xyskalla
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:50am

      Say “hello” to Big Government–intrusive, blind to its own abuses, but quick to overreact to everything else. They try to rationalize their abuses when they are pointed out to them, but somehow they‘re never able to use discretion or common sense about other peoples’ situations. Big government never holds itself to the same standard it holds everyone else to.

      Big government is your friend. Big government LOVES you. Loves you like a stalker.

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    • NickyD
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:23am

      I’m glad that I grew where, and when I did. I taught my daughter to fire a handgun, at age seven.
      I don’t ever remember living in a house without a gun, or guns. My friends and family hunted. I only went out once. The rabbit got away. I didn’t know, at that time that I had to **** my shotgun before it would fire. I was relieved that the rabbit got away.
      When I grew up in the 40′s, 50′s, in NC, there were guns in the corner of the bedroom, or kitchen. There was always a rifle, on a rack, above the exit door. I don’t know of anyone that I grew up with being accidentally shot and killed. My friend Vance did blow his big toe off, riding back from a hunting trip with the loaded shotgun resting on his foot.
      NickyD

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    • AZRACISTBIGOT
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:56am

      In a nanny state you need to trade your commmon sense for equal parts of zeal and enthusiasm.
      This incident underscores the need to teach our kids to play “Cowboys and Liberals”

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    • old white guy
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:42pm

      this thing should be viral in canada but guess what??? it is already gone. the average canadian has a max seven day attention span. guess what, this one didn’t even get four days.

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    • hipockets
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Close the border to Canada??That’s a lame idea,they are our neighbor and have stood with us thru wars,etc. I happen to live 6 mi from the border,and do a lot of shopping there.(Some of their products are better then ours and cheaper’).Nowdays theres a lot of US products on their shelves,which helps our economy. They are buying 2nd homes in my little town,which is keeping us alive. Are their things I don’t like about Canada,you bet. #1 is their GUN CONTROL’ I have Kids,Grandkids living there,and would like to leave them family guns.It would be a big hassle for me and them,and who knows if the Govt.would end up with them. I’ll have to forget leaving them to family there.

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    • alinga
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:17pm

      I grew up on the Canadian border and considered Canadians as friends but they have become the enemy of freedom and we do need to close the border. Look for Canadian influence on March 18th at the Chicago G8 meeting. This could easily become the catalyst of the Nation of Islam uprising and an attempt on President Obama’s life as Farrahkan predicted. This Spring could be a disaster to the USA if we are not prepared.

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    • mrqstixx
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:43pm

      Coming soon to a country near you. Also Drsavagae24, Beck is right alot of the time, but is also
      a D bag quite often.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:58pm

      Watch out now, that baseball bat laying in the corner of your garage is considered a WEAPON and you will be arrested if it is not housed in a cage, out of the grasp of children.

      Yup, this society is getting scarier by the day and YOU, yes YOU who do nothing about it by NOT calling your school board, local authorities, and government officials and complaining about this stuff happening at the expense of our tax dollars, HAVE IT COMING. What is the old saying ABOUT GIVING UP YOUR LIBERTIES (a little at a time) SO YOU CAN HAVE SECURITY?

      I hope this man SUES THAT POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WHOEVER CALLED THEM TO HIS HOME. SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WASTING TAXPAYERS MONIES in this reckless and STUPID operation. SHAME ON THE POLICE.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:02pm

      Ruler4You:
      Yes, liberals are paranoid, but they are CLOSET GUN OWNERS, don’t ya know.
      They just don’t want anyone else to have that gun. CONTROL. They want control over YOU and I.
      That’s why I just purchased 5 new guns last year alone and have an arsenal. I figure bullets will be worth more than gold by the time Obama leaves office. I have stocked up on bullets, so much so, I had to rent a storage locker to contain them all. Reloading equipment is a MUST-HAVE, also.
      Think about that in the long-term..

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:12pm

      Did you know that if you sit in a coffeeshop and draw hangman so all can see what you are doing, and you stare at the people around you and pretend you are hanging each one of them, you can be arrested for being THREATENING? It is under the hate crimes act.

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    • Protoham
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:32pm

      Maybe Canada needs to become the 51 and 52 states.

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    • Watchdogman
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:43pm

      I wonder, since Canucks are so afraid of guns and pointy knives, why in the world do the visit the U.S.? Of course I would never go hunting or fishing in Canada simply because they are such whoosies..And as far as democracy, they are not..They are a utilitarian group of nimp-kampoops…Afraid of their own shadows…they would shrivel up and die if it weren’t for the Great USA…

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  • goofyfoot2001
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:36am

    Why is the Blaze posting stories about Canada? I don’t give a squat what they do in Canada.

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    • JackSprat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:45am

      We should be well aware of what is going on in Canada, please don’t keep your goofy head stuck in the sand pretending nothing is going on!

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    • Rumrunner3
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:47am

      Yoiu had better give a sqat. Its coming to the local jack booted thugs near you.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:09am

      It does remind me of the NC school lunch inccident. Plus Obummer and Ginsberg do look to foreign types of Governance as a guidline.

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    • DeepintheHeart
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:13am

      In case you haven’t noticed, your Democrat neighbors would like to strip you of your rights as effectively as Canada has done. Remember Mark Steyn being tried for writing about Muslim jihad? And don‘t even think about going to the Great North if you’ve had a DUI in America. They won’t let you in. How do they know? Your US police record, dummy. My son-in-law was on a skiing trip and his party was held up for a couple of hours at the border when one of the guys was pulled off and not allowed into Canada. If you value your freedom, don’t even think about taking a gun across the border. Canada is what Obama wants for you now.

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    • asybot12
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:31am

      @legal ??? immigrant???. I am as usual not at all surprised by the total ignorance of people like you. As a Canadian I am equally stunned by this . We have conservative government and mostly a conservative population . Let’s not react like Obama did re the arrest by the stupid cops and all was settled over a beer!!! Facts first and judgment after!!

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    • jnobfan
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:36am

      How long do you think it will take the wing-nuts in Cali to create a program where kids are required to tell teachers if their parents have guns at home?
      Next step is all households with kids must give up their guns.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:39am

      @ASYBOY12 – You have a conservative government NOW. You didn’t for a REAL long time and they passed plenty of laws in that time and put all their people in places of education and the media.

      Don’t get me wrong – I’m not judging your country per se. We have the same morons here pulling the same cr@p here.

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    • truelife
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:46am

      I am a Canadian, and I am sure there are other Canadians who frequent the blaze… I like seeing the odd article… and it is relevent because this sort of stuff is happening right next door to you. IF more Americans looked at the socialist Government system in Canada (gov run health care, welfare, pension, etc.) they would have a greater understanding of why they should oppose it. Many of Canada’s failures are a glimpse into your not so distant future if progressives keep getting elected..

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:06am

      Wake up America !!! Look and see what is just to your north … my relatives are dying much younger than those of us in the U.S. from treatable diseases…. because of nationalized healthcare … wake up.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:20am

      I was stationed at Ft Drum, NY many years ago, and used to drive into Canada often spending most of my time in Ontario and some in Quebec. Really enjoyed it there, saw some great sights while enjoying the food. I met and worked with some Canadians on my previous tour in Germany and really had a great time getting to know them. That being said, I look upon this incident as an individual incident of an over reaction and not the norm. Of course the laws are different there and there is no 2nd Amendment for protection of gun owners. We have these types of over reactions popping up here too. At least for now, they are not the norm…yet! Except in the far left state, California, as well NY, parts of Illinois and a few other places. Back to this incident. I would imagine that this 4 year old girl has blended her imagination into what she watches on TV with her father to be the hero in her drawings. Hope this incident becomes a real embarrassment for not only that local police department, but the school’s faculty, and child welfare services. Hope the father has the recourse to sue as well. He really should if he can.

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    • dugbru
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:38am

      and Canada doesn’t give a squat about you and your ignorance..

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:44am

      B/c the left wing in this country want the US to become more like Canada and Western Europe.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:21am

      @GOOFY
      To open up your closed mind!!

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    • kapnkd
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:47am

      REALLY??? …Take it as another wake up call.

      Canadian citizens slowly lost their rights and freedoms (like the right to own/have guns) one bite at a time! …Sound familiar as to what is now going on here too???

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    • FFTyranny
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:31pm

      Because you need to watch whats going on all around you and outside your borders Mr Ron Paul supporter.

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    • FFTyranny
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:48pm

      @asybot12 Sorry and I mean no disrespect, but your countries definition of a conservative is NOT even close to ours. Your governments conservatives ARE progressive conservatives.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:06pm

      He can play victim now and make the the Lidturds play him for the rest of his life……..

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 4:31pm

      goofyfoot2001 – “Why is the Blaze posting stories about Canada? I don’t give a squat what they do in Canada.”

      First they came for the Canadians, but I never liked their bacon …

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    • lukerw
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:42pm

      The GESTAPO!

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:23pm

      Why?

      Because you are next. If you visit Canada, is it legal to think about guns? Children in China dance with guns during holiday and anti-American parades. If its OK for Chinese children why not Canadian and American children?

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    • powedj
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 7:16pm

      Because it’s happening here. All this crap starts with 4 year olds school lunches be confiscated by the food police.

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    • asybot12
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:54pm

      @legal?immigrant? Love your language but don’t insult Inuits OK? The conservatives are mostly based on what in the day was called the Reform party, mostly Western Canadians and close to separating from the East. Our PM (Prime Minister) is a Conservative Christian. His party has been the Government for the past 8 years he is also a well world wide respected economist rather than the used cars salesmen or worse than your elected (read bought) “politicians, The CBC is on it’s way out as a subsidized entity and the liberal party although it did a tremendous amount of damage will never return its replacement left party the “New Democratic ”party is completely inept and make fools of themselves every time the talk. YOUR country however is going to look or even be worse than Canada ever was. JUST listen to Glenn from his trip speaking to Europeans they are stunned at was is happening in the US because like Canada they were there and learned their lesson. Oh BTW what country did you come from to call your self a legal immigrant just asking. And not all guns are banned as some one else assumed

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:44am

      Yes, why on earth should you care about what your neighbor is doing?

      And to all the Canada-bashers, PM Harper is one of the top conservative politicians in the Anglosphere, and Canada is currently ranked by the Heritage Foundation as more capitalistic than the US.

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    • califmark
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Spoken like a true Ron Paul supporter.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:09pm

      Yes, you will care, eventually. Canada right now is our staunchest ally. Their leader is a conservative and does not like Obama and libs. Besides, where are you going to run to when Marxism takes over finally? Canada is more lenient than Britain right now. They actually believe in calling a spade a spade like, TERRORISTS, AL-QUAIDA, MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, ETC. Unlike our liberal government officials who are so afraid of saying what the truth is, but instead, sugar-coat it so as not to offend anyone, Canada is polite, but speaks their mind. Now, how long it will be until they get swept out to pasture by the liberal morons there, who knows. But, for now, they are all we’ve got, besides Israel, which is hanging on to the USA by a thread. Israelites CANNOT STAND OBAMA AND OUR GOVERNMENT. Besides, Israel needs NO ONE, not even the USA. THEY HAVE GOD ON THEIR SIDE – that is much bigger ;-))))) GO ISRAEL! GO GOD! GO GET ‘EM GUYS! HOORAH

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  • BuggiOlleo
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:33am

    I would like to add Canadians banned all gun, and supposedly removed every gun from Canadian Society in 1995..Clinton went after guns around this same time–only he didn’t get anywhere near Gun control as in Canada; however, our wonderful Sec of State–Billary–is busily signing legislation in the UN to have ALL small arms removed from the entire WOrld–already signed circa 2012 Feb..by the wonderful Hillary.. Now, the real problem is two-fold..where to start? and how to do it without getting killed? If our Supreme leader_oDuma_ can get the shred the Constitution(look out)..the UN is on the Way! Then, like I said before..the problem will be getting the guns without getting killed or doing a the massacre of men, women, and children.. US citizens have always been problematic–I believe we may have the most guns..I think I read recently how OBlo-umo was the greatest gun salesman EVER!!!!

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    • drago
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:03am

      @Buggiolleo
      Let sillary sing a UN agreement, let odumbo bypass congressional approval, then lets see the UN come here, and try and take our guns, it wont end well for them, believe me,and they know it.

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    • bane73
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:22am

      The problem is, I doubt they will take our guns in one fail-swoop. That’s not how they typically work here in America. They’ll start small and quiet, using the new laws as justification — going after situations/people that even most of us would agree to… except they’ll use the new laws as their new legal basis. After we get used to that, they’ll widen their arc, going after situations/people that are more questionable to us — but not so much to the mainstream americans that aren‘t paying very much attention and themselves aren’t necessarily big 2A supporters — using the fact that the law held in previous cases as justification it should hold in these. Once they get the mainstreamers to go along with this (against our complaints), THEN they’ll start coming after us, slowly. They’ll pull Ruby Ridge style tactics and make us look like weirdos to the general public. And then the full hammer will come down. It’ll still be a bloody fight, I’m sure — but by then we won’t have the average american on our side. Winning in November might buy us some time, but I’m not sure it will reverse things enough.

      The only way to win (IMO)??? We need to decide to collectivate in one or a handful of states, take political control of that area, and demand the return of original federalism — at threat of civil war. We don’t do that, we lose (ultimately).

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    • drago
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:30am

      Canada is a socialist quasi-communist State, ruling over sheep. The people living there, allow their government to do with them as they please, simply because the government gives them certain freebies.They same can be said of certain “groups” of people here.Once a sheep, always a sheep.My question is, how many of you folks will become sheep, or will be willing to stand and fight, even giving your life, for America,and its constitutional republic,or shall we become Russia?

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    • RRFlyer
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:48am

      I have no idea what this says.

      <<<>>>

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    • truelife
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:56am

      Canadians did not ban all guns in 1995….. Our Liberal Government (equivalent to your Democrat Government) created a registry, following the creation of that registry over a period of time they classified various guns as “undesirable’ and slowly classified them as prohibited… making the illegal to own in Canada. They mainly went after hand guns and now you need a restricted license to own one, and cannot carry it anywhere except from your home, to the shooting range, and back… ammo and gun must be stored under lock and key in the home making them useless in a home defense situation. The Canadians just recently elected a conservative Gov who ran their entire election on scrapping the gun registry…. We gave them a majority government, they voted to scrap it… but it still has not been scrapped….. Quebec (our mini france) wants to keep the registry info for themselves. meaning all it will take is a new liberal government to get elected and we will be back to square one…. PS…. Even though we have elected a majority gov to sscrap the registry… the UNELECTED senate can choose to keep it… regardless of what our elected officials say…. that is where we are at now.

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:57am

      Wow Truelife,
      That really stinks that unelected officials have so much power. Has it always been like that or is that a more recent change?

       
    • truelife
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:36pm

      AxelPhantom: yeah it sucks, but any educated Canadian knows that while many of us do enjoy a pretty safe, secure, comfortable and blessed life, ultimately we are not a free people. If you research how our Government works, while we have elections and outwardly appear to be a “democracy” ultimately Canada is a Monarch… If you goto WIKI and type in Governor General – This is a position which ultimately holds all the power in our Country.. This position is held by whoever the Queen of England appoints to be her representative here… Many Canadians are not aware of the legality of this position…. You see, regardless of what our elected officials decide, the Queens Appointee has authority to trump them. When our constitution was drafted, unlike your form of republicanism, our founders opted for a form of Federalism…. they believed the Monarch would serve as a bullwark against any attacks on this “federalism”.. throughout our history you see republicans like your founders pop up… and they get executed for high treason…. Louis Riel serves as an example…. Understanding Canadian history helps anyone who loves Freedom truly appreciate the history of the United States of America and the declaration of Independence! Many of us are watching sites like the blaze, because we understand that when your country ceases to be free… the World is in a lot of trouble!!

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:52pm

      @bane73

      Good post. Says it all.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:47pm

      amazing grace.. says nothing. 60 percent of all canadians think socialism is the only way to go. they can think this because canada is extremely rich in natural resources with a very small population, 10 percent of the u.s. population. the u.s. needs our oil because there are communists in control of the u.s. government. the other country who really wants canadian is the other communist country, china. nuf said.

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:33am

    I’m glad I grew up when I did. From the time I was born I have lived in a home with guns. I didn’t think there was anything unusual with that as there were guns in many of my friends homes. As a boy my friends and I drew pictures of every kind of weapon imaginable, knives, guns, tanks, and even atomic bombs. We drew them in art class or as doodles when bored in class. Teachers never questioned whether we had those things at home and police never showed up. We even played with toy guns and pretended to shoot each other with real looking arms. Adults didn’t seem concerned and cops paid no attention at all. We had a lot of fun and not one of us grew up to misuse real firearms. Imagine that!

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:35am

      I grew up during that time too. Cops and Robbers; Cowboys and Indians; Soldier. Me and my brother knew where the guns were. We knew dad kept the bullets in a special drawer. We knew where the key to the drawer was and we would often unlock the drawer and LOOK at the bullets. We’d pull the gun out (probably loaded) and LOOK at it. We never, EVER actually TOUCHED them. There was never a gun accident in our home and we grew up unafraid of guns.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:33am

    Mention the word ‘gun” and these control freak libs flip out and go nuts.Canada‘s a lost cause they’re already a socialist country and we’re headed down the same road,socialism\marxism.Some would say you’re paranoid if you think the government would try to confiscate firearms here,I say it‘s likely it’ll happen here and it won’t be pretty.

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:06am

      Our 2nd amendment rights protect the rest of our rights…surrender our guns and we lose our freedom..gun sales are at an all time high..it gives me great hope for our future..

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:19am

      You’re correct the 2nd amendment does indeed protect us from government,and like I‘ve said many times every ’gun law’ passed since the 2nd amendment is unconstitutional.It’s true that our Marxist POS president is the best gun salesman ever,kind of ironic isn’t it?

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:44am

      In the 90‘s Clinton asked the military brass if they’d forcibly disarm the public. They not only said no but H3LL NO! That is when when they started replacing the brass. Now I‘m not so sure they’d say no. Look how long they’ve allowed this admin to stomp all over the Constitution with nary a word of protest.

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  • Trading_barracuda
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:31am

    Don’t vote for Ron Paul! Keep the TYRANNY going and growing.
    The same things are happenning in America already.
    Elect anybody but Ron Paul. You deserve it you stupid Bass Tards

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    • DSTSS2010
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:17am

      You’re as wacky as the Liberals!

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    • Maji
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:27am

      Andy! Andy!
      Iran needs a thermonuclear bomb for respect!!!

      Yeah… vote Ron“Barney Fife”Paul.
      You Stupid bas**rds!

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  • BuggiOlleo
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:31am

    Canadians banned all gun, and supposedly removed every gun from Canadian Society in 1995..Clinton went after guns around this same time–only he didn’t get anywhere near Gun control as in Canada; however, our wonderful Sec of State–Billary–is busily signing legislation in the UN to have ALL small arms removed from the entire WOrld–already signed circa 2012 Feb..by the wonderful Hillary.. Now, the real problem is two-fold..where to start? and how to do it without getting killed? If our Supreme leader_oDuma_ can get the shred the Constitution(look out)..the UN is on the Way! Then, like I said before..the problem will be getting the guns without getting killed or doing a the massacre of men, women, and children.. US citizens have always been problematic–I believe we may have the most guns..I think I read recently how OBlo-umo was the greatest gun salesman EVER!!!!

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  • mule creek ridge
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:30am

    Forget looking for a new school. Maybe a new geographical location with laws that allow people to possess items for self protection against repressive government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • navypop
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:29am

    everyone should have a gun at home . if you need help fast . the police only come after the crime is commited. we played with toy guns growing up . we must wake up soon, the CHANGE that is comming is not for our own good .

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    • Skrewedretiree
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:27pm

      There are two common sayings about this:
      1. When seconds count, the Police are only minutes away.
      2. Call for an ambulance, call for a cop and call for a pizza and see who gets their first.

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  • constitutionaldirective
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:29am

    The kids were scared,” Thaler. “It is a 4-year-old that we’re taking the information from, but the fact is that this disclosure was very descriptive and very alarming to the officers investigating this.”

    Geee… I wonder why the kids was scared.. because the Dad has a toy gun or because a FASCIST TYRANT (Thayer) WAS INTERROGATING HER without parental permission??

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:49am

      I’ll go with the latter,I hate libs telling normal people how to live,that’s all they do is stick their nose in your business,and when they try it here with seizing firearms they’re going to experience blowback.

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    • NORTHBRO
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:38am

      It would be one thing if a law was broken, but it isn’t illegal to own a gun, or to have one in your house, so what law did they arrest him under, well that explains why he didn‘t know and wasn’t told what he was under arrest for. The cops had nothing on him, but some how the CPS has authority over all now. Americans can mock Canadians over these stories, we see them time to time, however we Canadians come to the blaze daily and see this stuff happen daily to our south.

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:29am

    Hitlers germany, why, oh why, would we want to emmulate
    that. And yes, when govt. officials approach we will get
    to a point where we shoot first and ask questions later.
    They work for US, we are not slaves to them and they
    damn well better remember that. I can see a revolution coming
    folks, and it will be violent beyond belief.

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    • jlcook
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:52am

      Yep!

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:05am

      I prefer a peaceful Ron Paul Revolution myself. There isn’t a more distinct choice this time around regarding second amendment rights. Newt said he would stand up for the 2nd, but was speaker when the Brady Bill passed and even voted for it. Romney’s on record saying his state had tough gun laws and he supports them, and Santorum voted against the 2nd amendment to protect it. Which doesn’t make a lick of sense to anyone smarter than a box of rocks.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:46am

      @ JUSTANGRY, Sorry to bust your bubble, but that sorry excuse for even a democrat, Tom Foley was the Speaker for the signing of both Brady I and II. I don’t care much for Newt these days either, and it really disappoints me after praising him when he first became the Speaker in ‘94. He and others really did throw a monkey wrench into the Clinton machine back then.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:39pm

      Fair enough

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  • SoundStride
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:24am

    Canada sucks California sucks New York sucks all liberals suck they are all just a bunch of pinko socialist pantie wastes.

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    • MYHEROISRON
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:29am

      I smell LAWSUIT!!! I‘d sue the hell out of ’em!!

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    • PaBowHunter
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:37am

      This type of tyranny is EXACTLY what occurs in a police state in which the citizenry has been disarmed.

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  • Foilman
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:23am

    New school? He needs to look for a new country.

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    • JQCitizen
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:34am

      Yeah, well, just remember this is a Nannie State coming soon to a town near You, aye?

      WHERE would he go?

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  • justangry
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:21am

    Coming to a police state near you. Don‘t think the R’s won’t do it to you either.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:25am

      Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Feinsten and crew have to be drooling when they read a story like this. It will not be long, and they will get to do the same. It will happen beccause the American people allow themselves to get duped into some new fear.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:42am

      Our government is infested with progressives with an R and a D,we even have an admitted socialist with an I,Sanders.For a dictator to take hold they first have to disarm the populace and I believe they’ll go for it,they’ve already conditioned the populace to accept unconstitutional and degrading searches at airports and unconstitutional checkpoints on our streets.

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    • justangry
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:09am

      Watch out for the U.N. small arms treaty to undermine our constitution. Globalist R‘s and D’s are onboard.

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    • I support God's Israel!
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 4:11pm

      The Rs surely will too! No doubt about it!

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  • David, the Constitutional Libertarian
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:21am

    ===[] Ruh, Roh, If I was in Canada I would have the mounties knocking on my door. I thought Canada was going conservative? Looks like they are going full on nazi to me.

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  • D-Fence
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:18am

    What an an absolutley absurd story. I can’t believe this actually happened. Sure the drawings may warrent an additional conversation with the parents but arresting the man, strip searching him, bringing his pregnant wife in for further questioning. I surprised they didn’t break out the rubber hoses while they were at it. I’m not going to cast aspersions on Canada since our country is rapidly falling apart because of the socialist mantra.

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    • 000degrees
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:30am

      Half of America thinks this is reasonable, you know “sensible gun laws”………

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    • Darla_K
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:47am

      Why should a drawing of a gun drawn by a little girl attract this attention? If the little girl had drawn a picture of a airplane would the terriost police come and interogate this family and check for bombs? This is pathetic and a sad day in Canada for this family. I did not know that guns were not allowed in Canada. I will stay here in the USA where we still have some rights.

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    • cwtsp3
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:00am

      With all due respect, can’t you see your view represents part of the problem? Why should a drawing like this require talking to the parents? It is the slow conversion of people to liberal beliefs that are killing this country. They push hard we fight back and then they come back with a less intrusive idea which we accept…they do it again and again and suddenly we wake up and go “what happened?”. Compromise with someone who wants to kill you doesn’t make you any less dead!

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    • jlcook
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:06am

      Absolutely Darla, how the hell does a drawing of a gun, warant any attention, IT IS A DRAWING! Who the crap has the mentality that this warants even a talking to, come on d-fence, your falling into their state of mind.

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    • Cat
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:02am

      Darla >

      Want attention …

      Draw a perfect picture of a mons pubis, sans filamentous biomaterial and watch what happens.
      This four year old was applauded for his talented use of rubbed charcoal and brown paper media.

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  • Bro. Chuck
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:17am

    “From a public safety point of view, any child drawing a picture of guns and saying there’s guns in a home would warrant some further conversation with the parents and child,” said Alison Scott, executive director of Family and Children’s Services.

    “would warrant some further conversation”……

    pretty soon it will be
    “shoot first, ask questions later……..”
    “HALT ! (bang) …. or i’ll shoot…..

    all these Barney types holding the weapons and the idiots making the judgements…..

    God help us all, folks……

    Be Bless’d in Yeshua!

    Bro. Chuck

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  • rambosharley
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:17am

    This would be funny if it wasn’t so scary! Yep BIG GOVERNMENT is the way to go. We’re to STUPID to take care of ourselves and our children so we need BIG GOVERNMENT COMMIES to do that for us!

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  • BlackAce41
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:13am

    As the News anchor said there are Lawyers waiting to do something about this one…..

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:04am

    So this means that every Canadian that has a gun at home will be arrested and strip searched . Ah for socialism and marxism. If we are not careful it will happen here.

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    • Meyvn
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:09am

      and the war is on when it does.

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    • BuggiOlleo
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:30am

      Canadians banned all gun, and supposedly removed every gun from Canadian Society in 1995??..BClinton went after guns around this same time–only he didn’t get anywhere near Gun control as in Canada; however, our wonderful Sec of State–Billary–is busily signing legislation in the UN to have ALL small arms removed from the entire WOrld–already signed circa 2012 Feb..by the wonderful Hillary..
      Now, the real problem is two-fold..where to start? and how to do it without getting killed?
      If our Supreme leader_ODuma(u=oo)_ can get the shred the Constitution(look out)..the UN is on the Way! Then, like I said before..the problem will be getting the guns without getting killed or doing a the massacre of men, women, and children.. US citizens have always been problematic–I believe we may have the most guns.

      PS .I think I read recently how OBlo-umo was the greatest gun salesman EVER!!

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    • robinakilt
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:08am

      Everyone needs to ask themselves how much Freedom and Liberty are you willing to loose here in America before you say enough is enough. Those in DC from both parties have been destroying our Constitution for a long time. This did not start under Obama although Obama has put everything on an accelerated course and to be honest I am glad he did because it is forcing people who have had their heads in the sand to wake and acknowledge that the destruction of America as it was intended to be has been underway! We should try to correct this path through voting and reaching the minds and hearts of every American, but let us not be naïve history has shown time and again that sometimes and person who loves his Freedom and Liberty must stand up and say enough is enough…NO MORE! So when is that time for you?

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  • TheCenturion
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:02am

    Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

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    • USAF2003
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:18am

      I cherish the day the govt comes to my house to try and take MY guns. Good Luck

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:01am

    Canada…their Navy is so small they could train in a bathtub.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:42am

      Good thing the kid didn‘t draw a mushroom cloud ain’t it?

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:01am

    Coming here if the idiots holder and obama have their way-

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:16am

      Holder thinks only drug cartels should have guns

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:00am

    Yes this story ended well but just imagine if this had been a wooden gun that launched rubber bands. Would you still feel the same?

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:33am

      I know exactly what you mean. It’s all fun and games until someone gets a red mark on their skin.

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  • Carbine
    Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:00am

    Coming to a school near you!

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    • jackal
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:05am

      You got that right!!!!!!!!

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    • Hemispheres2112
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 8:07am

      If Obama is re-elected…this sort of situation will become common place. Say goodbye to your 2nd ammendment rights…

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    • drago
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:00am

      @hemisphere2112
      I really get tired of you people saying we will lose out 2nd amendment rights if odumbo is elected again, maybe we will, on paper, lets see him try and take them from us,aint going to happen……..

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    • jlcook
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:08am

      Agreed Drago, “from my cold dead hands!”

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:11am

      This will be America if the leftist get their way!

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    • wesinLR
      Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:06pm

      the revolution will start when gun owners become criminals. so keep it up lefties…in the end none of us will have much but bloody burned up cities… and some other nation will be moving in trying to run us… hope you like slavery, as the people who fight will mostly be dead.

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