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.