Sooooo, you’ve whittled it down to casting aspersions 75,000 people at a time? You’ve had ~5 million people tell you that Kalamazoo is a hellhole?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahahahahhaah that’s fantastic
I could easily imagine that happening over here too. Still I would have thought an American who managed to leave the lower 48 would be a bit more culturally aware than that?
Next thing you know, people will want to shake his hand when they meet him - I wonder if he’ll have to shoot them to protect himself.
Hmm, I guess if you’re a moderator, you’re exempt from descriptive thread titles. 
Dude, that was a joke.
I have added info the the title of the merged thread to make it clearer what the topic is.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
“The Stampede” is the biggest rodeo in the world and it ain’t got no gun-totin’ allowed? That’s not a rodeo, that’s a Rodeo, as in Drive. No wonder Walt (can’t have fun without mah gun) Walawa was suspicious of those young lads!
Almost as good as an Iowan Gal?
Now, that’s not true - the cops at the rodeo all have guns. And there are A LOT of cops there!
I wish I could care that some cop from Michigan needs his gun on him at all times.
I actually find more telling the fact that he felt compelled to write a letter to the newspaper about it. I hope he’s reading the reader responses, what was he thinking?
This is CANADA, dude: relax.
I remember one occasion where I turned on the television and a strange man asked me “Are you ready for some football?” in a very belligerent fashion. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ that I happened to have a board with a nail in it nearby, or else I don’t know what would have happened.
I hope so. All those Canadian Cowboys. Shudder.
That’s right - we don’t ask you before we start beheading and cannibalizing you. Sheesh.
I think you mean, “MMmmmmm.” 
I’m with the cop in the article. I do not like to go *anywhere *unarmed. I feel naked without my 9 mm on me.
I hereby propose a law forcing him to change his name to Moe Ron.
Maybe you should try wearing clothes. Not only will they help with that nagging “naked” feeling, they’ll make concealing your 9mm much more comfortable.
Kind of? I don’t read her editorials anymore - they were making me stabby.
Where is this? I never carry on vacation.. and I’ve never heard of this.. I remember their was some controversy about carrying off duty in New York.. they were threatening to arrest New Jersey officers..
The cop.. well that’s why you can’t take my co-workers anywhere..
Pity that people have to arm themselves when they go to the movies in the USA, likethis fellowwho armed himself to protect himself from other fellows like him, who in turn armed themselves to protect themselves from others . . . .
It’s a pathetic vicious cycle that I do not want to see started here in Canada.
Or it could be he was not armed simply to protect himself, but instead was yet another nutter who had easy access to a handgun in a country awash with handguns.
Either way, I want no part of it bleeding over into Canada.