So yesterday the federal Liberals announced some new gun control measures, which make me wonder are these designed for domestic or international reactions?  Seems like he wants to be seen as the “adult” compared to what happened in the US.  I absolutely hate it when politicians justify measures based on what happens in other countries and while I think this is a pretty ridiculous comparison, more countries in the world ban LGBT rights than support them, should a government in the future legislate based on that?  Sounds silly when you extend the thinking doesn’t it?

The bill would create a new “red flag” law allowing courts to require that people considered a danger to themselves or others surrender their firearms to police.

Source: CTV News

See you can tell the Liberals are pandering because this framework already exists as does the ban of “large capacity” magazines.  This government only cares what makes it look good rather than doing good, maybe I’ll buy another handgun or two before this ban comes into place.

So the public inquiry into the mass shooting in Nova Scotia is continuing and CBC had an article about close calls the public had with the shooter and it’s so damn clear that had a public emergency message went out, some of those who were killed would be alive now.  It’s the replica police car and uniform that allowed the gunman to get close to people & the RCMP really failed badly over and over here.

There are others who reported seeing a car that could have been the gunman on April 19, but the timing wasn’t verified by police. Others might have not reported at all, unaware of the significance of what they’d seen.

The man Dykens had passed just before 10 a.m. near the post office and elementary school in Debert on Plains Road was the gunman, who was disguised as a Mountie.

Soon after, the shooter killed Kristen Beaton and Heather O’Brien. Dykens knew both women.

Believing the gunman was a real officer, he said he would have pulled over to the side the road if the lights on the replica cruiser had been activated.

“So that kind of haunts you a little bit,” Dykens said.

Source: CBC

I still can’t believe the RCMP thought twitter would be a legitimate way of reaching people in rural Nova Scotia.  That they knew that he was in a replica RCMP vehicle early on into the night too, heads really need to roll in the NS RCMP.  But the Liberals are buying them cover, banning guns would have solved this how I don’t know but that’s their logic.

The Halifax Examiner has been on the Nova Scotia shooting since the beginning and this again goes to show how god damn incompetent the RCMP was that night.  While I can definitely empathize with the commander’s fear of losing an officer, it also bothers me.  When you sign up as a cop, your job is to protect the public, to make sure they get home.  It’s like a firefighter refusing to save civilians because they’re afraid for their own life, if that’s the case get another job.  Oh and the comms guy working from home who drank so much that he didn’t want to go out because others would smell alcohol on his breath…

The worst though was this revelation…

According to a court affidavit from Superintendent Darren Campbell, the photo of the car “was provided to RCMP Critical Incident Command at about 722am.” The RCMP issued a tweet at 8:54am naming the killer and giving his description, but the tweet provided no information about a fake police car. It wasn’t until 10:17am that another tweet was issued containing a photo of the car and the warning that the killer “may be driving what appears to be an RCMP vehicle and may be wearing an RCMP uniform.”

In the nearly three hours between the RCMP being in possession of the photo of the fake car and the photo being tweeted out to the public, four* people were killed by the man driving that fake police car.

Source: Halifax Examiner

This is simply unacceptable and frankly I feel that all officers involved should be fired at a minimum.  Could those 4 people be alive today had the police acted faster?  Who knows but by that time it was already in the news that there was a shooting incident so yeah maybe.  There are some jobs where you cannot have such failures and policing is one of them, yet the Liberals use gun owners as their scape goat, as if any gun laws in place (again the guy acquired his guns illegally) would have done anything to stop this from happening…

This is why I’m so upset at the gun ban, it was done under false pretenses with absolutely no data to justify the confiscation of private property from hundreds of thousands of people.  I don’t need money, I don’t want their money what I want is to keep my stuff because what the Liberals are doing is based on a lie that they continually perpetrate.  Like the issue of gun violence, the Liberal party is full of easy answers that sound good but do nothing and that should not be rewarded.

As a gun owner, it’s infuriating to see that the Nova Scotia shooting is used to justify the Liberals gun confiscation.  It should be pretty clear that it’s being used to hide the RCMP’s complete failures that night, someone who didn’t acquire his guns legally so how is banning legally acquired firearms suppose to stop something like this from happening again?

The first RCMP officer to arrive at the scene, Const. Stuart Beselt, told a commission lawyer that he believed the killer shot himself after RCMP Emergency Response Team officers called his name using loudspeakers.

Beselt, in an interview conducted on July 22, 2021, said he heard “one loud crack” of gunfire as he and other officers were being sent home early on April 19, 2020.

“And I’m like, ‘He just did himself in the woods,’” Beselt told commission lawyer Roger Burrill. “We heard one last loud crack and it was like, ‘Nah, he just knows the gig’s up. He just shot himself’ …. I felt like the situation was over. They’ll find him in the woods somewhere.”

Beselt wasn’t the only Mountie who guessed wrong about the killer’s fate that night.

Const. Aaron Patton, one of three officers who advanced into the neighbourhood within minutes of arriving at the scene at 10:25 p.m., also said he later heard what he believed was one, loud rifle shot as police called out to the killer.

Up to then, there had been no single gunshots, he said in an interview with an RCMP officer on April 23, 2020. “It was always multiple gunshots …. It was never just one, so we were 100 per cent sure that that was him killing himself in the woods,” Patton said.

Source: Cloverdale Reporter

The RCMP officers that failed with their duty that night should be fired at a minimum, their lack of attention and urgency to the situation is what caused a lot of people to lose their lives yet the federal government fear mongers on people who get background checks everyday.  Damn Liberals, all they can ever do is pander with easy answers instead of dealing with the hard truth.

It should be clear that criminals do not obey the laws and even the cops are a gun ban will not solve the issue of gun violence.

Testifying before the Commons public safety committee on Tuesday, Toronto Police Deputy Chief Myron Demkiw said that of the crime guns last year that investigators could trace, 86 per cent were smuggled into Canada from the United States — a trend he said has been on the increase since 2019.

“Our problem in Toronto are handguns from the United States,” he said in response to Conservative MP Raquel Dancho’s question about the Trudeau Liberals’ nearly billion-dollar federal buy-back program — one that would allow legal gun owners to turn in so-called military-style assault rifles banned by Ottawa a year-and-a-half ago.

“The issues around investing in what you described is certainly not going to deal with the crime problem we’re facing in Toronto, as it relates to the use of criminal handguns.”

Demkiw told the committee that, aside from addressing key causes of criminality in the community, money and effort should instead be spent on stemming the flow of illegal guns into Canada.

Source: National Post

To be fair though, Liberals already know this, they’re pushing ahead because of the optics, they want further fool the public into thinking they’re doing something about gun violence when in reality it’s all smoke and mirrors. If their confiscation goes ahead, it’ll definitely cost over a billion dollars, money which could be better spent addressing the root causes of gun crime but that’s hard and all the Liberals can do is pander with easy answers…