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.
