[marktwain]

It is not *quite* impossible to obtain a permit to carry around a pistol in Canada. There are three ways that I know of:

1. Have a verifiable, eminent threat against your life never heard of one being issued, but it is in the law)

2. Have it issued as part of a trapping consession.

3. Have it issued for use as an official pest control permit (I met a Canadian who had that; he said he was the only one in Canada that he knew of.

[Norm Lenhart]

The need for Swede

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3290417/posts

[Snowyman]

This explains Canadian gun laws.

http://www.howtogetagun.ca/

[afraidfortherepublic]

Outdoors ping!

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

IF he had a handgun, he might have survived, but not likely. It sounds like it was the middle of the night and he was asleep. His fiancée only discovered him missing in the AM, so she didn’t hear a struggle. In bear country, he should have been sleeping inside.

Any time I go into the mountains, I carry ‘bear bangers’ and also bear spray as a last resort. Even the TransAlta Hydro boys, who maintain all the isolated hydro facilities in ‘K-Country’, are not allowed to carry guns. They depend on ‘bear bangers’. So far, no one has been attacked by a bear. The ‘bangers’ seem to do the trick!

[Big Red Badger]

Bear countries with out Bangers!?!

[ExCTCitizen]

Sleeping outside in bear country? Darwin winner...

[Amagi]

"If Ward had carried a handgun, virtually impossible under Canadian law, he might have been able to save himself, as happened with an Arizona camper in 2002."

The smug libtards are rejoicing, no doubt.