Columns: Good night sweet prince and flights of Angels sing thee to rest

Posted on Tuesday, July 05 @ 09:13:27 CDT by El-Diablo

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Unless you live under a rock or were in a coma induced by something you obvious heard about the massacre in Alberta where 4 R.C.M.P officers were ambushed and shot to death by a lone gunman using an automatic high powered rifle. The man James Roszko was simply a local thug, who terrified the town and constantly had confrontations with the police. The man was busted for having a grow operation for cannabis and stole truck parts. A man who if went to court might of spent less than 5 years in jail, instead took a rifle and killed 5 men, three whom were not much older than me. Their candle of life snuffed out before it could glow bright.

If any good will come of this, Canada will wake up to its conceptions of cannabis and its legality, and the protection of our officers. Many people believe that people running these grow operations were just some stoners just trying to have some bud. While Canada is very liberal with its current laws on cannabis we have lost our sense of direction. In the world of drugs “weed” isn’t as profitable has harder synthetic drugs, yet organized crime and hardened criminals are getting into the business. They booby trap their properties, store large cashes of weapons that could rival our military sadly enough. These people are a scourge on our society but we as Canadians have looked the other way thinking it isn’t that big of a deal.
If anything our government should look into legalizing cannabis, hemp etc so they can simply take the money and take the profit away from these thugs. I know it sounds like silly but think about it. Think back to the 1920s and prohibition, banning alcohol did not curb drinking, in fact it led to the rise of the mafia and several bloody gangs wars and shoot outs with the police. The solution? Legalize alcohol and take the power away from criminals and move onto new things.
And finally our government must take a stronger stance and people who run grow ops. People who run grow ops and are violent criminals, they store weapons and in extreme cases can gun down 4 police officers at once. The only thing that failed here was the justice system, the system that let this man avoid jail time and time again.
We can send a man too the moon, we can clone a sheep, we can control the atom yet in the 21st century we cannot develop body armor for police officers that will stop more than some small hand gun rounds!
Hopefully everyone will learn from this.