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…

Macleans did a story on the NS shooter and man this case is getting weirder and weirder…  The RCMP has publicly stated that they didn’t have any relationship with him but now the press anyway is not so sure.

The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say.

& later in the article…

If Wortman was an RCMP informant or agent, it could explain why the force appeared not to take action on complaints about his illegal guns and his assault on his common-law wife.

A Mountie familiar with the techniques used by the force in undercover operations, but not with the details of the investigation into the shooting, says Wortman could not have collected his own money from Brink’s as a private citizen.

“There’s no way a civilian can just make an arrangement like that,” he said in an interview.

He added that Wortman’s transaction is consistent with the Mountie’s experience in how the RCMP pays its assets. “I’ve worked a number of CI cases over the years and that’s how things go. All the payments are made in cash. To me that transaction alone proves he has a secret relationship with the force.”

A second Mountie, who does not know the first one but who has also been involved in CI operations, also believes that Wortman’s ability to withdraw a large sum of money from Brink’s is an indication that Wortman had a link with the police. “That’s tradecraft,” the Mountie said, explaining that by going through CIBC Intria, the RCMP could avoid typical banking scrutiny, as there are no holds placed on the money.

“That’s what we do when we need flash money for a buy. We don’t keep stashes of money around the office. When we suddenly need a large sum of money to make a buy or something, that’s the route we take. I think [with the Brink’s transaction] you’ve proved with that single fact that he had a relationship with the police. He was either a CI or an agent.”

So what the hell is going on?  Was the shooter an RCMP asset and that’s why they didn’t take his illegal guns away or investigate the allegations of domestic assault?  I’m very thankful that the Canadian media is not letting up on this case and the RCMP silence is deafening…  There’s definitely something shady going on and the conspiracy theorist in me says our PM announced the gun ban (on false pretenses) to save the RCMP from major embarrassment.

Guns & gun owners have always been political pawns but this is absolutely ridiculous and there needs to be a damn public inquiry.

It’s becoming very clear that the RCMP totally fucked up dealing with the NS shooter and was told many times that he had illegal weapons and had violent tendencies…

Police agencies across Nova Scotia were warned in May 2011 that a denturist named Gabriel Wortman had a stash of guns and said he wanted “to kill a cop,” according to records newly obtained by CBC News.

But the Nova Scotia RCMP can’t say what, if anything, was done with the tip about the man who police believe went on to kill 22 people, including an RCMP officer, in rural Nova Scotia in April.

Source: CBC

Not only were authorities aware that he wanted to kill a cop, he was known for uttering threats to his parents and the police had information that he had guns!  I mean what’s the damn point of the RCMP running the Canadian Firearms Program, is it voluntary only for those who want to obey the law?!?  To me It’s pretty clear that the RCMP failed on many levels and the conspiracy theorist in me says the government is cracking down on legal gun owners to distract from the RCMP’s failures.

I’m glad the media is keeping a spotlight on the failures of authorities, it’s their fault the NS shooter was able to wreak havoc.

So the government & gun control advocates are changing their tactics and are starting to say that further gun control is required to protect women from intimate partner violence.  While I can conceded that it’s a problem, I need to point out that according to Statistics Canada, in 2018 which is the year with the latest available data that firearms were used in less than 1% of incidents for females.

I have no problem if someone says misogynyis an issue that must be dealt with but let’s get the facts straight and deal with the actual issue because guns are not the problem neither is it the tool of choice.

So as I mentioned previously the Liberal government loves fluff and Friday announced that it’s banned 1,500 assault weapons and that sounds impressive doesn’t it.  Looking through the list, man I really wish I bought that Stinger SAM, one of those sexy 120mm mortars and I was just about to pull the trigger on a BGM-71 TOW missile.  Yes that’s right things that are already banned are on the list as well as some heavy crew served weapons.

Don’t you feel safer that arms like this will not fall into the wrong hands?  Not that they could before but man 1,500, that sounds really good doesn’t it.  Like there’s a difference being made, oops!

Damn that TOW missile would have really looked great on my Toyota Prius!

This is what I’m talking about when I speak of fluff, while yes the Conservatives do it too, the Liberals simply do it more.  If someone wanted to do something evil, no list or ban will stop them.  You can easily make ammonium nitrate bombs or chlorine gas with items that can purchased readily or hell maybe they’ll just use a van.

I demand better from my government than lazy politics, policies designed to sound good rather than do good and more of you should do the same.  Even if you don’t like guns maybe it’ll be something you like next time around.

Well the Liberals through an Order in Council has gone ahead and banned various firearms like the AR15s and now some of the guns I own are paperweights.  Today was just the announcement so details are sparse but yeah it’s not a good day to be a Canadian gun owner.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced a ban on some 1,500 makes and models of military-grade “assault-style” weapons in Canada, effective immediately.

Starting today, licensed gun owners will no longer be allowed to sell, transport, import or use these sorts of weapons in this country.

“As of today, the market for assault weapons in Canada is closed,” Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said. “Enough is enough. Banning these firearms will save Canadian lives.”

Source: CBC

LOL the gun list is available and my MK18 doesn’t technically fall under the ban but I’m sure that’ll change soon.  During the press conference both Trudeau and Blair reference the tragedy in Nova Scotia and their need to keep Canadians safe but the shooter wasn’t a legal gun owner nor did he acquire his guns legally!  No law nor the new regulations introduced today would have made a difference but again this is fluff and it’s only designed to fool people into thinking something is being done.  It doesn’t have to work, it just has to sound good.

The government official said that, at the end of the two-year amnesty, gun owners must dispose of the firearm or they may be able apply for the firearm to be “grandfathered.” Details on the grandfather process would be released at a later date, the official said.

Today’s ban does not cover handguns, the weapon of choice for gang members. Blair promised Friday to enact legislation down the line to give municipalities the power to ban these firearms.

Two quotes within the article I want to address, first I don’t need the money so I may as well keep my 3 AR15s.  Next do we really think gangs will give a shit if a city bans handguns?!?  Really this is the absurdity of our political leaders!

Anyway there’s a 2 year amnesty and the government is likely to fall before that so we’ll see what happens.  I’ve never been a single issue voter and have mainly supported the Liberals but no more, I have too much invested in the hobby and as my other rants have show, when they’re elected they govern like Conservatives anyway.