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.