Do not expect the woke police in Canada to protect you from an LGBT assault

The big story from the weekend came from Vancouver, BC, where a pro-child activist was assaulted on camera by a transgender activist. Crowds of police were standing around watching, and one of the female police officers was smirking and laughing as the assault happened. She refused to lift a finger to investigate or make an arrest, and accused the victim of causing his own wound.

Here’s the story from The Blaze:

The Vancouver Police Department is investigating after activist Chris Elston, also known as “Billboard Chris,” says he was assaulted Friday at a trans-rights rally.

“The most violent group in the western world are transgender activists,” Elston tweeted Saturday. “Here I am getting assaulted in the presence of dozens of police who do nothing,” Elston said.

The police officer was not interested in seeing the video of the assault, instead accusing the victim of assaulting himself.

One video of Friday’s incident in Vancouver shows Elston, already with what appears to be an open cut on the bridge of his nose from an earlier assault in the public park. That video shows a group surrounding him, chanting “f*** you.” Police officers are seen standing by as the swarm quickly grows violent.

The video shows one chanting protester with an orange umbrella and a rainbow flag, standing within inches of Elston, directly behind him. As Elston turns, his elbow appears to graze the protester’s fluffy coat collar and Elston appears to place his hand lightly on the protester’s collar as he continues turning on the spot.

The video shows the protester immediately go for Elston’s neck with what appears to be an attempt at a choking type hold. A scuffle ensues as Elston pulls back from the hold, then pushes the protester away, and tumbles toward the group of officers. As Elston creates some distance between himself and the protester group, one female officer among the several officers in view in the footage, appears to be smiling or chuckling.

[…]The first assault at the Vancouver location occurred “within seconds” of his arrival, Elston said, adding that he had called 911 for assistance. According to Elston, the female officer — who appears to be the same officer smiling during the later assault described above — initially suggested Elston might have cut his own nose.

That’s what you get for “law enforcement” in Canada.

If you are the victim of violence or vandalism in Canada, the police will probably not do anything to the criminal. Especially if the criminal is in one of the special interest groups favored by the secular left. They might even charge you instead, if you’re not in one of the left-wing special interest groups. Canada is not America. It’s more like a third world banana republic, where a hierarchy of victimhood determines who is right and who is wrong. There is no law.

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Now, I want to say something about the smirking female police officers. I’m not sure if it’s the same one in all the videos, or different ones. But something about this really rubbed me the wrong way, and I’m actually quite angry about it.

So, let me start by saying that a woman can’t measure the value of a man by reflecting on how his appearance makes you feel. A man with a tall appearance, tattoos, muscles, etc. might make a woman feel protected. But without looking at spiritual ability and moral ability, there is no guarantee that there is a worldview inside the man that would cause that man to protect a woman from a threat. And in any case, not every threat is a bear to wrestle with. Sometimes the threat is in the public school classroom, or even inside the woman’s desires.

So, when you look at Billboard Chris, you have to look past his appearance. And when you do that, you’ll see that this about as good of a man as you can make. Why? Because a good man protects children and animals from stronger people who want to hurt them. The man can be tall, the man can be short. The man can be handsome, the man can be ugly. The man can be rich, the man can be poor. The man can be smart, the man can be dumb. But what makes a man good for his family, and good for society, is that he is willing to deploy whatever strength, thinking, money, etc. he has to defend the weak from the strong. And Billboard Chris does that.

And that brings me to the smirking affirmative action police officer. And it brings me to the rule of secular leftist women over men in Canada, as a whole. Canada is a society that is dominated by the feelings-based priorities of secular leftist women. From the banning of free speech, to the banning of guns, to the high tax rates, to the single payer health care, to the coddling of criminals, gay rights, taxpayer-funded abortions… the whole society is set up to punish men who want to lead a home based on moral and spiritual ability. So when I see this immature police officer smirking at Chris, I find it infuriating. Chris is the kind of man that women should look up to and support. But in a country like Canada, what you get from the whole society is this smirking mockery. And that’s why marriage is in a steep decline in Canada. Men don’t marry women who mock spiritual and moral leadership. Men might have hook-up sex with immoral women, but men don’t commit to them. Men don’t make babies with women who are opposed to God and morality.

Billboard Chris says he is scheduled to be on Tucker Carlson on Monday night. I want everyone to be clear on what a banana republic Canada is. Don’t go there. Don’t spend your money there. It’s not a country of laws. It’s just a left-wing dictatorship where the police do the bidding of the secular left. Keep out of there.

Knight and Rose Show – Episode 31: Was Jesus a Socialist, Part 2

Welcome to episode 31  of the Knight and Rose podcast! In this episode, Wintery Knight and Desert Rose continue discussing what the Bible says about Christianity and economics. We discuss Bible passages that support the free enterprise system. If you like this episode, please subscribe to the podcast, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. We would appreciate it if you left us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

PLEASE NOTE: Rose is sick with the same thing that I had during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. For me, that lasted about 4 weeks, and I was on a prescription cough suppressant just so I could sleep! So, we have have a delay until we can record episode 3 in this series on Christianity and socialism.

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Christian apologists Wintery Knight and Desert Rose discuss apologetics, policy, culture, relationships, and more. Each episode equips you with evidence you can use to boldly engage anyone, anywhere. We train our listeners to become Christian secret agents. Action and adventure guaranteed. 30-45 minutes per episode. New episode every week.

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Episode  Summary:

Wintery Knight and Desert Rose look at several passages of the Bible where Jesus speaks about economics issues, and discuss whether his words are more compatible with socialism or free enterprise. What view of property does Jesus assume? Who should redistribute wealth to alleviate poverty – governments or individuals? What does the Bible teach about greed, envy and coveting? We end the episode with book recommendations. This is the second episode of a three-part series.

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Wintery Knight is a black legal immigrant. He is a senior software engineer by day, and an amateur Christian apologist by night. He has been blogging at winteryknight.com since January of 2009, covering news, policy and Christian worldview issues.

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Why do law-abiding Americans insist on owning guns?

I’m not originally from the United States, and when I go back home to visit, one of the questions that I get asked a lot is “why do Americans own so many guns?” So in this post, I wanted to look at some stories from the United States about crime and gun violence and see why so many Americans own guns.

My favorite writer on these issues is Amy Swearer, who writes for the Daily Signal. I find that her articles are useful for explaining to people who don’t own guns, or want to ban guns, why it might be a good idea to own a gun, and to know how to use it.

The first article to see is a review of 10 examples of defensive gun use from February 2023.

She writes:

Almost every major study has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between 500,000 and 3 million times annually, according to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, the most comprehensive study ever conducted on the issue concluded that roughly 1.6 million defensive gun uses occur in the United States every year.

For this reason, The Daily Signal publishes a monthly article highlighting some of the previous month’s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed—or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts here from past years.)

The 11 incidents below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in January.

Here are a couple of the examples:

  • Jan. 9, Ellijay, Georgia: Police said an armed robber who tried to hide his face under a pair of women’s panties entered a combined gas station and convenience store and pointed a handgun at the clerk. What he didn’t know is that all three customers inside the store were legally armed. Working together, they disarmed the robber and held him at gunpoint until police arrived.
  • Jan. 14, Utica, New York: When a disgruntled customer at an Applebee’s restaurant slashed an employee across the face with a steak knife, police said, an armed diner with a concealed carry permit intervened, ordering the man to drop the knife. He then held the assailant at gunpoint until police arrived.
  • Jan. 27, Haines City, Florida: A concealed carry permit holder returned home with his girlfriend to find two intruders in his kitchen. The homeowner drew his gun and fired five rounds at one intruder, striking him four times, before fleeing with his girlfriend and calling police. Responding officers found the wounded intruder—a convicted felon—near the home and were trying to identify and locate the second intruder. In response to the shooting, Haines City Police Chief Greg Goreck reminded reporters that most people in the county are armed, saying: “One should expect that if you are brazen enough to enter into someone’s residence and it is not yours, with intent to commit an unlawful act, there may be repercussions.”

The second article talks about defensive gun uses by students:

  • Feb. 14, Seattle: A couple and their two children were getting out of a family vehicle when two armed robbers threatened them, police said. The father also was armed, however, and exchanged gunfire with the robbers until they fled. In an effort to protect his wife and children, the father moved away from the vehicle to create distance between them and the crossfire. He was shot three times in the lower body, but his actions prevented his wife and children from being hurt.

  • Feb. 22, Eddy County, North Dakota: A farmer spotted a wanted murder suspect walking near his property and held him at gunpoint until police arrived, single-handedly ending a two-day, multiagency manhunt.

It’s especially important for people living in blue cities or blue states to arm themselves, because the police forces in these areas have had their budgets slashed by Democrats. “Defund the police” sounds so good, but it just gets a lot of peaceful, law-abiding people killed.

It’s very important to ask secular leftists who want to ban law-abiding people from owning firearms “what do you expect people to do when criminals want to hurt them?” The answer I get from my atheist Democrat friend is that he expects them to call the police, and wait for them to arrive. There is a real suspicion among secular leftists of law-abiding people defend themselves – especially men. A man defending his family? Why, that’s “sexist”. Better to call the police and wait for them to arrive.

The peer-reviewed research

Whenever I get into discussions about gun control, I always mention two academic books by John R. Lott and Joyce Lee Malcolm.

The book by economist John Lott, linked above, compares the crime rates of all U.S. states that have enacted concealed carry laws, and concludes that violent crime rates dropped after law-abiding citizens were allowed to carry legally-owned firearms. That’s the mirror image of Dr. Malcolm’s Harvard study, which shows that the 1997 UK gun ban caused violent crime rates to MORE THAN DOUBLE in the four years following the ban. But both studies affirm the same conclusion – more legal firearm ownership means less crime.

One of the common mistakes I see anti-gun advocates making is to use the metric of all “gun-related deaths”. First of all, this completely ignores the effects of hand gun ownership on violent crime, as we’ve seen. Take away the guns from law-abiding people and violent crime skyrockets. But using the “gun-related deaths” number is especially wrong, because it includes suicides committed with guns. This is the majority (about two thirds) of gun related deaths, even in a country like America that has a massive inner-city gun violence problem caused by the epidemic of single motherhood by choice. If you take out the gun-related SUICIDES, then the actual number of gun homicides has decreased as gun ownership has grown.

For a couple of useful graphs related to this point, check out this post over at the American Enterprise Institute.