{"id":3047,"date":"2024-03-28T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:10:41","slug":"toronto-cops-save-your-own-life-by-making-life-easier-for-armed-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Cops: Save Your Own Life By Making Life Easier For Armed Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Anderson-IN-Home-invasion.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What\u2019s a homeowner to do when there\u2019s a spate of home break-ins by armed assailants?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in Toronto, apparently the best advice police can give you is give up your car to avoid being hurt by a violent criminal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door,\u201d Constable Marco Ricciardi of Toronto Police Services advised at a community meeting. \u201cBecause they\u2019re breaking into your homes to steal your car. They don\u2019t want anything else. A lot of them that they\u2019re arresting have guns on them, and they\u2019re not toy guns. They\u2019re real guns. They\u2019re loaded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"r8-8gxc7Q_8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toronto police officer suggests leaving car keys by front door (now they&#039;re taking it back)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8-8gxc7Q_8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The advice came after it was revealed that home intrusions\u2014many of them by armed criminals\u2014for the purpose of stealing cars had already reached the total from all of last year. According to Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, more than 12,000 vehicles were stolen across Toronto last year. Additionally, carjackings are on pace to more than double in 2024 compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The first reaction for many Americans to such advice is thinking how crazy it sounds. But after some community members questioned giving their cars away to thieves to avoid an armed assault, the <em>Toronto Star<\/em> came to the police\u2019s rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/should-torontonians-leave-their-keys-where-thieves-can-find-them-why-the-idea-may-be\/article_738f4ebc-e602-11ee-93a5-c3fc0b730fc9.html#:~:text=A%20still%20from%20security%20footage,stealing%20the%20owner's%20key%20fob.&amp;text=There%20was%20outrage%20and%20confusion,thief%20breaks%20into%20their%20home\">Star\u2019s story<\/a><\/em>, headlined, \u201cShould Torontonians leave their keys where thieves can find them? Why the idea may be better than the alternative,\u201d actually interviewed a former thief currently in witness protection who said the constable was giving sound advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a bad idea,\u201d the unidentified former thief told the <em>Star<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve been there. I\u2019ve done it. I\u2019ve gone into people\u2019s houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thief further told the <em>Star<\/em> that he was often armed and on crack cocaine when he broke into homes. As the story reported, \u201cThe difference between a robbery and a murder is often a one-second lapse of judgment, he reasons. If a thief stumbles onto your seven-year-old daughter\u2019s bedroom looking for your car keys, the former thief said, \u2018Now your daughter has seen his face.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Truth About Guns readers know, Canadians have been pushed, shoved and pummeled by the government to the point where they are nearly completely disarmed. Now that the government has accomplished that goal, the best advice it can offer is to leave your keys at the front door so armed criminals, who haven\u2019t obeyed the gun laws, can take your car without hurting you?<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be one of those situations where the operable phrase is, \u201cYou\u2019ve got to laugh to keep from crying.\u201d Home intruders in the United States know they stand a good chance of being shot if they break into a citizen\u2019s house. That\u2019s why most thefts at homes are done when the residents are away.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, in Canada the opportunity to fight off an armed home intruder is all but gone. And while Americans can shrug and say, \u201cToo bad,\u201d gun-ban advocates want the same thing for citizens of our country.<\/p>\n<p>If we don\u2019t fight diligently to protect our right to keep and bear arms, it\u2019s not impossible that we could be getting similar advice from the \u201cauthorities\u201d in the next five or 10 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/toronto-cops-save-your-own-life-by-making-life-easier-for-armed-criminals\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 What\u2019s a homeowner to do when there\u2019s a spate of home break-ins by armed assailants? If you\u2019re in Toronto, apparently the best advice police can give you is give up your car to avoid being hurt by a violent criminal. \u201cTo prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}