I knew it was coming: Victims’ families demand tougher gun laws (CTV.ca, Fri. Sep. 15).
Predictably, anti-gun zealots are exploiting the September 13 shootings at Montreal’s Dawson College to try to usher in more gun control laws (as if Canada doesn’t have enough already).
They’re pressuring Ottawa to keep the phenomenally unsuccessful (and expensive, and unpopular) gun registry which was implemented as a result of a similar incident in 1989. Of course, the people calling for the registry not to be scrapped aren’t able to explain why keeping the registry would prevent more incidents like these, since the registry obviously wasn’t able to prevent this one from taking place. If gun control failed in the past, then the answer is to have more gun control? Doesn’t sound very logical to me, not that liberals, leftists, bureaucrats, and bereaved parents are known for their critical thinking skills.
Face it, folks — no amount of gun control can prevent incidents such as these from occurring. If you ban guns, all you’re going to do is drive the market underground, creating a worse situation. If this psychopath hadn’t obtained his guns legally, he would merely have bought unregistered (and perhaps far more lethal) guns off the street. The last thing Canada needs to do is to create new markets for the organized crime syndicates.
Here is a photo of the shooter holding up a hunting knife:
After we’re done banning guns, perhaps we should also ban hunting knives. You never know; if that guy hadn’t had access to firearms, he could’ve gone after people with that big knife of his. And after we’re done banning knives, perhaps we should start banning fertilizers and any other potential bomb-making materials. Once we’re done banning those, we should also consider banning box cutters, since those were allegedly the weapons used by the 9/11 hijackers. Et cetera. Once we’ve started down this road, where will it end?
Guns are not the problem; people are. If we’re going to ban anything, I say we ban videogames which glorify violence such as the one the shooter was reportedly fond of:
“Gill [the shooter] describes life ‘as a video game, you’ve got to die sometime.’ He says he is a fan of the controversial and violent video game series ‘Postal,’ in which the targets are everyday human beings completing everyday errands.“
The guns may have given him a means to carry out the attack, but it was clearly the videogame which gave him the inspiration and the conditioning necessary to carry it through.
And for all you conspiracy theorists out there — isn’t it strange that witnesses and early press reports said the shooter was carrying an (illegal) assault rifle, but now that certain groups have spotted an opportunity to pursue their gun control agenda, the story has been changed? I also find it odd that the media are portraying this guy, Kimveer Gill, as a lone nut, even though witness accounts clearly suggest that there were multiple shooters. What happened to the other shooters?
Just something to think about.