Gun-adian
09-16-2006, 01:18 AM
The Canadian Gun Control Debate has started up again thanks to this nutjob!!!
For those of you who don't know, on Wednesday September 13 2006, a young twenty-something year old male went on a shooting spree at Dawson College in Montreal. 20 people were shot, one of which has since died, before the gunman, already wounded by police, shot and killed himself.
We've always said that the gun registry is useless because crooks don't register guns. Now we find out that all the firearms this loon had on him that day were legally registered to him!!!
My thought going through my head when this happened, aside from concern for the victims, was "please don't let these guns be registered to this idiot". Well, they legally belonged to him.
I can see the headlines now from the liberal press.
"Are gun owners a ticking time-bomb?"
"Are we screening potential gun owners well enough?"
"Can gun owners be trusted?"
The families of the victims are already being exploited by the liberal media for their gun control stories. We've seen and heard statements about "tightening up our gun laws" from distraught family members. An uncle of the young lady who died, referring to the rifle the shooter used, as an "army gun" that only the army should have, has stirred things up pretty good.
The rifle used was a Beretta Storm. Not exactly a frontline combat weapon.
This rifle, up here, is classified as a restricted weapon, because of its factory barrel length. This is the same classification as a handgun, meaning it can only be legally used at an approved shooting range.
The shooter had other weapons on him as well, but not too much has been said about what they were.
Our politicians were going to debate the uselessness of our gun registry this fall when the House of Commons goes back into session. All of us Canadian gun owners were hoping that this would finally put this bottomless money pit out of our collective misery.
In light of this tragic "recent development" it will be a very heated debate indeed. The three opposition parties have already stated they will not support scapping the registry. Now this shooting will give them one more reason to dig in, all in the name of keeping Canadians safe.
I've been saying this to anyone who'll listen:
"One person (teacher?) with a CCW (we call them Authorizations to Carry) could have really changed the outcome of this."
We do have them but they are next to impossible to get. The people that do the authorizing will flat-out deny every application, except in very certain circumstances. Trappers and prospectors can get them but the firearm can't be concealed and can only be carried in the field.
BTW...I have a Utah CCW so I can carry in the states that recognize it (I think there's 30 states now). Funny how a foreign government trusts me with a firearm but the country of my birth doesn't.
Interesting times ahead.
Sorry for the long post.
Rant mode off...
Mike
For those of you who don't know, on Wednesday September 13 2006, a young twenty-something year old male went on a shooting spree at Dawson College in Montreal. 20 people were shot, one of which has since died, before the gunman, already wounded by police, shot and killed himself.
We've always said that the gun registry is useless because crooks don't register guns. Now we find out that all the firearms this loon had on him that day were legally registered to him!!!
My thought going through my head when this happened, aside from concern for the victims, was "please don't let these guns be registered to this idiot". Well, they legally belonged to him.
I can see the headlines now from the liberal press.
"Are gun owners a ticking time-bomb?"
"Are we screening potential gun owners well enough?"
"Can gun owners be trusted?"
The families of the victims are already being exploited by the liberal media for their gun control stories. We've seen and heard statements about "tightening up our gun laws" from distraught family members. An uncle of the young lady who died, referring to the rifle the shooter used, as an "army gun" that only the army should have, has stirred things up pretty good.
The rifle used was a Beretta Storm. Not exactly a frontline combat weapon.
This rifle, up here, is classified as a restricted weapon, because of its factory barrel length. This is the same classification as a handgun, meaning it can only be legally used at an approved shooting range.
The shooter had other weapons on him as well, but not too much has been said about what they were.
Our politicians were going to debate the uselessness of our gun registry this fall when the House of Commons goes back into session. All of us Canadian gun owners were hoping that this would finally put this bottomless money pit out of our collective misery.
In light of this tragic "recent development" it will be a very heated debate indeed. The three opposition parties have already stated they will not support scapping the registry. Now this shooting will give them one more reason to dig in, all in the name of keeping Canadians safe.
I've been saying this to anyone who'll listen:
"One person (teacher?) with a CCW (we call them Authorizations to Carry) could have really changed the outcome of this."
We do have them but they are next to impossible to get. The people that do the authorizing will flat-out deny every application, except in very certain circumstances. Trappers and prospectors can get them but the firearm can't be concealed and can only be carried in the field.
BTW...I have a Utah CCW so I can carry in the states that recognize it (I think there's 30 states now). Funny how a foreign government trusts me with a firearm but the country of my birth doesn't.
Interesting times ahead.
Sorry for the long post.
Rant mode off...
Mike