25 Apr 20
The RCMP have released few details about the mass shooting in Nova Scotia, which tells me there are embarrassing things they don’t want to become known too soon. But there are some things we do know that can’t or haven’t been hidden.
The first is that all the gun control measures enacted in response to the École Polytichnique shootings of 1989 utterly failed. Failed! The shooter had no firearms permits, yet managed to acquire several long guns and at least one handgun without them. All but one of the guns were traced to the United States. We can be sure that no “assault-style” rifle was involved, because if one were the Trudeau government would be making that fact widely known. Imagine that, twenty-two people shot over a period of thirteen hours, and no “assault-style” rifle was used.
The myth that the police will protect you was also exploded. In rural Canada, police are at best forty-five minutes away, so if there is an active shooter in your rural area, you are on your own. Disarming people in rural Canada on the grounds that you don’t need a firearm and, besides, the police will protect you, simply won’t wash anymore.
A gun confiscation would not have stopped the shooter because the police didn’t know he had any to confiscate.
The gun control regime is burdensome, even to the bureaucracy that runs it. With a mass shooting in Canada once every thirty years or so, gun control procedures are empty, bureaucratic exercises of no urgency or importance and serve only to entrap the law-abiding.
The last point is obvious to most Americans, and this is that twenty-two people died for lack of shooting back. If gun ownership were not so heavily discouraged in Canada, the shooter might have been startled, deterred, and even stopped by a few flying back at him. But the shooter knew he was going after the unarmed, and so was taking no risks.
The RCMP found him by pure luck, and the tactical team likely gave him little time to consider his options.
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