Canadian Border Shoot-out: Why Guns are Good

I can sum up the problem with modern liberalism in one sentence from an AP story today entitled: “High Speed Chase Shuts U.S.-Canada Crossing.”

Allow me to set up the context of the quote.

Last Saturday, a 43 year old man was murdered in California, and Monday sheriff’s deputies tried to stop a pair of men matching the description of the suspects.

Well, these two refused to stop, and led police on a 100 mph chase to the Canadian border. There was also an exchange of gunfire, and one of the suspects was wounded.

So picture the scene, two desperate killers are leading our officers in a high speed shoot-out race to the Canadian border, now the quote: “An unspecified number of Canadian border agents, who are unarmed, left their posts during the incident because they were concerned about their safety, said Paula Shore, a spokeswoman for the Canada Border Services Agency.”

What! What good are unarmed border guards who flee at the first sign of trouble?

But of course, the liberal Canadian government (well, formerly liberal Canadian government, they were replaced by a new conservative government yesterday) doesn’t believe in guns.

Guns are evil, guns hurt people they would say.

I say thank God they do, and thank God our guys had guns and were able to use them to stop two violent killers.

When liberal utopia runs into the reality that evil exists in the world, it holds up about as well as the Canadian Border Patrol.