Posted on 04/22/2020 11:19:14 AM PDT by rktman
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau promised a ban on “assault-style weapons,” following the hours-long shooting spree that lasted Saturday night through Sunday morning and left at least 18 dead in Nova Scotia.
Buzzfeed reported that the attacker, Gabriel Wortman, was allegedly “looking for a former significant other” when the killing spree began. He used “a replica police vehicle and what looked like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police uniform to pull over random drivers and execute them on the spot.”
The Press Democrat reported that authorities have yet to confirm that “assault-style weapons” were used in the attack, but Trudeau indicated he already intended to secure the ban. His efforts to do so had simply been delayed by the coronavirus outbreak.
Trudeau said, “I can say that we were on the verge of introducing legislation to ban assault-style weapons across this country. It was interrupted when the pandemic caused Parliament to be suspended, but we have every intention of moving forward on that measure, and potentially other measures, when Parliament returns.”
On April 20, 2020, Breitbart News reported that University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org describes Canadian gun control as “restrictive.”
Those controls include in-depth background checks featuring third-party interviews, checks into criminal and mental backgrounds, and spousal interviews. The controls also include licensing requirements for gun owners, with semiautomatic firearms and handguns allowed to be owned under license only. Storage regulations for guns and ammunition are also set forth, among other things. And the right to keep and bear arms “is not guaranteed by law” in Canada.
Canadian authorities have yet to say how Wortman acquired his firearm(s).
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why not just make it illegal to impersonate a police officer and execute inno0cent civilians?? A new Law should do it.
RCMP refuses to identify what weapon(s) were used.
That, in and of itself, is suspicious.
And after he offed the policewoman, he used her police machineguns to massacre trusting sheep who believe in the uniform.
And after he offed the policewoman, he used her police weapons to massacre trusting sheep who believe in the uniform.
If the guy pulled people over by pretending to be a cop and then executed them in their cars I would assume it was a handgun. Because who has ever seen a traffic cop walk up carrying an M-16?
Will he ban pointy sticks?
I thought they were already banned in Canaduh.
Shouldn’t he also ban matches and lighters?
how about banning false cops??
every Canadian citizen should now make SURE to have a couple of good quality “assault” rifles and pistols, with lots of good ammo, hidden away and ready to use in defense of this Canadian government.. at least so long as the current PM is in office
he’s positively dangerous!
How about a ban on assault-style maniacs instead?
Nope, the people rebelled on the gun registration.
What weapon would you want to have if some crazy was kicking your door in and threatening you family...
Typical leftist solution — punish those who didn’t do it (curtailing freedom is a punishment).
This makes “safety” all the more precarious. It’s only a matter of time before the next crazy starts killing prople. Said solution exists totally disconnected from the event and only serves to forward the dangerous goals of the ideologically possessed.
It needs to be banned again since it didn’t work the first time! Maybe writing the law in all CAPS might help get the message across.
Of course he does.
He’s a Leftist, ruling the Queen’s Canadian subjects, who are bereft of a Bill of Rights, enumerated in their highest law of the land.
So, whatever the tyrant says, they comply with.
He started with an "assault duck-hunting shotgun", then offed the policewoman, acquiring her pistol and long gun.
I presume the long gun was some sort of semi-auto.
Update: 22 PEOPLE KILLED IN NOVA SCOTIA RAMPAGE
April 21, 2020
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