Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Why not debate the issue of Justin Bourque???
Charles,
The first two commenters - you need to get real. Bourque has opened a public debate and if you people had bothered to read the transcript, and actually listen to him, you would realise he is very well educated and very intelligent. By his own admission he "snapped" and he also confirmed that he did not expect to live through the escapade. He pretty much went on a suicide mission. He also stated in his transcript that, while he was not looking forward to spending the rest of his life in prison, he felt life was pretty much a prison anyway. The people who tell us all to shut up, not debate and not listen to people like Justin need to get your minds right: he is a symptom, not a cause, and there will indeed be many more "hopeless" cases if this province doesn't smarten up and start creating real opportunity for the younger generation, whose only prospects right now are working endless hours for minimum wage.
Shut up Police Hater! Is this the standard answer when a person would like to honestly look at the facts and discuss the issue?
ReplyDeleteThe big difference is that the kid is a good shot. He's not the first guy to seethe exhausted over a few months, and finally snap. Fortunately for us, most guys that snap can barely tie their own shoes. This guy is a good shot, and when he snapped, there was hell to pay. And now there's hell to pay for a lot of people, and for him too. I feel bad for his family as well as well as the widows.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 11:27 and I think 12:41 brought up a good point as well. Bourque is just 23 years old, with no formal training, only got his first gun at 18, and showed the RCMP they were not only poor shots but had no tactical expertise at all to deal with a lone gunman. Justin has hopefully galvanized them into action to actually become professionals - which right now the RCMP clearly is not.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what else would have happened if he had brought with him some mosquitoes repellent and some water? seriously...
ReplyDeleteSoldiers get get killed all the time and if there lucky there picture might get posted in the news for 3 seconds and you will never hear anything about them ever again?
How many of our soldiers get killed, crippled, lose limbs or get fucked up in combats every year fighting those bullshit wars?
Unless they get killed you don't hear about it and its only a 3 second flash on the news.
Oh they get remembrance day, one day a year to remember all the soldiers that gave there life for all of us. One day for every soldier that ever died in the history of Canada.
They don't have the huge RCMP medical plan, union licking there ass for every shitty thing they do or the huge rcmp pension.
What is the toughest career? soldier or RCMP? duh...soldier by a million mile.
To me all the parades, fancy funerals, all the fund raisers for the RCMP families that by the way all had good life insurance and life insurance through there unions, all the attention they got is a slap in the face of all our soldiers.
How many RCMP get shot, killed, wounded, blown ed up, get half there body burned, lose limbs, see things everyday that would make you puke your guts out?
Now how many soldiers have that happen to them every day?
The RCMP didn't go in the woods after Justin and its a good thing because there 6 month training to earn $100,000 a year didn't teach them about those scenarios. But a soldier would have gone in in a blink of a eye and killed Justin.
I appreciate the RCMP but all the hoopla they received is a big fuckin slap in the face to our soldiers.
They were doing there $100,000 job and a nut ambushed them. shit happens.
It happens in schools, universities when a nut goes on a rampage and kills innocent people.
RCMP isn't the most dangerous job in the country....not even close.
Try being a soldier, Iron Worker, logger, Roofer etc.
Being a RCMP or cop is not even on the top 20 most dangerous jobs in the country.