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Originally Posted by dangonay
I'm all for this law for several reasons:
1. It doesn't affect you or me and causes no hardship whatsoever to honest Canadians. So wealthy people or politicians will have to get a permit. Big deal. A few minutes of paperwork and a small fee are tiny compared to the cost of a bulletproof vehicle.
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The police aren't going to be stopping regular people to see if their cars have been modded. They aren't going to travel from house to house looking for secret compartments. This gives them an excuse to pull over known gangsters and impound their vehicle and/or search a modified vehicle. That's it. Do you know how many times drug dealers have been caught with drugs in their vehicle, and got off because the police didn't have "reasonable grounds" to search their vehicle? Now they have reasonable grounds whenever they see a gangster in a modified or bulletproof car. |
I've nothing against the spirit of the law which is to target the criminals.
But this law also had collateral damage. This is just one more example where the government sticks its hand where it doesn't belong.
There's a reason the Americans have a right to bear arms.
For that exact same reason, it's why it's taking Egypt so very long to throw out a corrupted non democratically elected dictator.
Just because it doesn't apply to me in the here and now, doesn't mean I like enabling the government to more power than it should be entitled to.
I think time is better spent closing loopholes and creating stricter penalties.
You know how in the papers it always says "known to police"?
It wouldn't be very hard for them to tail those people and arrest them for any number of infractions.
The real root of the problem is the expensive and bloated justice system.
- If it was easy to grab the known criminals
- If they wouldn't have so many loopholes for them to make trial a lengthy process
- If jail wasn't a revolving door.
- If the cost of keeping them wasn't so bad.
Imagine that every dealer, armed criminal and repeat offender got locked away and never to see light. We'd never have to deal with idiotic laws such as this.
All this does is add more burden to a system.
Not fix it.