I started doing martial arts back in university and kept it up for like 20 years now. Of course, you never know if the guy will have a knife or a gun, so still definitely concerning. But I’m as well prepared for that as I’m going to be I figure. More worried for my partner, and I’m thinking we should order some bear spray for her to carry. I did get a cam, so we’ll see if that catches anything.
edit: turns out stuff like pepper spray isn’t actually legal in Canada, so there goes that idea
Something to be wary of is, iirc, a lot of stuff becomes illegal in Canada if you’re carrying it for self-defense reasons. Like owning a baseball bat is fine, owning a baseball bat and telling a cop (hypothetically, of course we wouldn’t talk to a cop) that you’re carrying it in case someone attacks you is not fine. So you’d need to go with something that has a plausible reason you’d be carrying it that isn’t this racist asshole I think
I was just reading up on this. We have some weird rules here. Basically, you’re not allowed to carry any item with express purpose of self defense, but you can use it incidentally if you had one on you for a different purpose. And there’s also the whole proportional force aspect.
Wait, so you’re Canadian? Well Canada has very well defined hate crime legislation, so you can very easily get this nazi to do some hard time before they have a chance to carry out any acts of domestic terrorism against your family. For all the country’s flaws they at least take that kind of shit seriously.
Yup I’m from Canada, I did file a report with the hate crime unit, so we’ll see where that goes. The messages have been unhinged, but stopping short of being direct threats so far. If the cops really did want to find this guy they’d have to contact Iristel, the company that provides the sms service, and they could get the identity of whoever sent the message to my number that way. It wouldn’t be that hard to do. They did say they’ll get back to me, so I’ll post an update on how this develops.
Yeah that’s what I figure. A friend of mine said something similar happened with him, and what he ended up doing was to get a lawyer to open a civil case which leads to discovery where they figure out who the other party is. It cost him around 3k to do it, but if this keeps going might be worth it.
I started doing martial arts back in university and kept it up for like 20 years now. Of course, you never know if the guy will have a knife or a gun, so still definitely concerning. But I’m as well prepared for that as I’m going to be I figure. More worried for my partner, and I’m thinking we should order some bear spray for her to carry. I did get a cam, so we’ll see if that catches anything.
edit: turns out stuff like pepper spray isn’t actually legal in Canada, so there goes that idea
Just checked and tasers are illegal up there too, what the fuck is going in in canada
Honestly, maybe a vial of capascin powder and sand than can be poured into the hand and thrown?
I’m mostly worried about my partner, but looks like we can get her coyote spray which is at least legal here.
Something to be wary of is, iirc, a lot of stuff becomes illegal in Canada if you’re carrying it for self-defense reasons. Like owning a baseball bat is fine, owning a baseball bat and telling a cop (hypothetically, of course we wouldn’t talk to a cop) that you’re carrying it in case someone attacks you is not fine. So you’d need to go with something that has a plausible reason you’d be carrying it that isn’t this racist asshole I think
I was just reading up on this. We have some weird rules here. Basically, you’re not allowed to carry any item with express purpose of self defense, but you can use it incidentally if you had one on you for a different purpose. And there’s also the whole proportional force aspect.
It’s probably set up like that so that people don’t walk around armed to the teeth for “self-defence” reasons like they do in the states.
That’s likely the intent yeah.
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sandcapsaicin!To be fair pepper spray is like, a war crime so it’s not at all surprising why it’s not allowed.
are you saying the United States is the crazy one… for letting everyone walk around with war crimes as self defense
yes, I do. and i’m tired of pretending it’s not
next your going to say I should not have emotional support guns, and the option to drive around in a tank.
Ok fuck you I want to drive the tank you’re not taking this away from me.
Just say I can keep all my emotional support firearms.
Fine but only if you eat this bug 🦗🤏
Wait, so you’re Canadian? Well Canada has very well defined hate crime legislation, so you can very easily get this nazi to do some hard time before they have a chance to carry out any acts of domestic terrorism against your family. For all the country’s flaws they at least take that kind of shit seriously.
Yup I’m from Canada, I did file a report with the hate crime unit, so we’ll see where that goes. The messages have been unhinged, but stopping short of being direct threats so far. If the cops really did want to find this guy they’d have to contact Iristel, the company that provides the sms service, and they could get the identity of whoever sent the message to my number that way. It wouldn’t be that hard to do. They did say they’ll get back to me, so I’ll post an update on how this develops.
It’s in the books now that’s the important bit.
Yeah that’s what I figure. A friend of mine said something similar happened with him, and what he ended up doing was to get a lawyer to open a civil case which leads to discovery where they figure out who the other party is. It cost him around 3k to do it, but if this keeps going might be worth it.