Posted on 12/07/2009 3:34:49 PM PST by neverdem
OTTAWA — Like public health care, Canada’s tight gun-control laws help distinguish the country from its powerful neighbor to the south. But as Canadians commemorated the 20th anniversary of one of the country’s most notorious shooting sprees on Sunday, their Parliament was on course to eliminate one of its most significant gun-control measures.
A long-gun registry, which requires the registration of rifles and shotguns, emerged largely from public revulsion over the massacre in 1989.
A decade before the Columbine high school shootings set off a national debate on gun violence in the United States, an angry, unemployed 25-year-old armed with a semiautomatic hunting rifle stormed the École Polytechnique, an engineering school in Montreal. Shouting “I hate feminists,” the gunman separated the female students from the men and killed 14 women before killing himself.
The crime was the sort that, even then, most Canadians thought could happen only in the United States. The anniversary was observed Sunday, as it has been every year since, by ceremonies across the nation...
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“Canada is suddenly changing into a place that loves guns and armies and war,” said Gerald L. Caplan, a prominent academic and former campaign director of the liberal New Democratic Party. “I don’t know how we got there but I don’t like it.”
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“This is so vicious, it’s amazing,” said Suzanne Laplante-Edward, whose 21-year-old daughter, Anne-Marie, was killed in the Montreal shooting. “The gun-control law is a monument erected to the memory of our daughters.”
The current debate does not involve handguns, whose registration has been required since 1934. Nor does it involve a variety of military-style weapons like assault rifles and sawed-off shotguns, which are banned outright. And the law’s repeal would not alter the requirement that gun buyers take safety courses and obtain a license...
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Google, BATH SCHOOL DISASTER.
Hmm, you know i was thinkin`...
if people were armed when that deranged lunatic entered the poli-technique they could have shot the SOB before he killed so many, if any, at all.
They want their citizens to be prepared in case our civil war spills over the northern border.
It was so ineffective that the Canadian government even doctored the records to avoid having to answer for just how ineffective it was. When the law was first passed they originally estimated that 4-5 million firearms were owned by Canadians. When only 2 million of them got registered, they revised their estimate downward to avoid admitting that only 40%-50% of the gun owners felt obligated to obey the law.
Can you believe it? The Times forgot to name the shooter?
Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi
Marc Lépine (October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a 25-year-old man from Montreal,Canada who murdered fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men[1] at the École Polytechnique, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in the “École Polytechnique massacre”, also known as the “Montreal Massacre”.[2][3]
Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi, in Montreal, the son of a Canadian nurse and a Algerian-born businessman.
Ahh...the arm of Islam is long.
Maybe its just me but I don't think I could just stand around watching another person shoot innocent people. Stupid or not, I'd do something regardless of the outcome........
If only one of those women had had a gun and knew how to use it, there might have been only one death that day. His.
Think about it, Mommy.
;-/
You forgot this part about Lépine’s dear old dad.
Gharbi was a non-practicing Muslim, Instability and violence marked the family: they moved frequently, and much of Lépine’s early childhood was spent in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico, where his father was working for a Swiss mutual funds company.[4][11]
Gharbi was an authoritarian, possessive and jealous man, frequently violent towards his wife and his children.[12] Gharbi had contempt for women and believed that they were only intended to serve men.[13] He required his wife to act as his personal secretary, slapping her if she made any errors in typing, and forcing her retype documents in spite of the cries of their toddler.[11][14] He was also neglectful and abusive towards his children, particularly his son,[9] and discouraged any tenderness, as he considered it spoiling.[13][15][16]
In 1970, following an incident in which Gharbi struck his son so hard that the marks on his face were visible a week later, his mother decided to leave. The legal separation was finalized in 1971, and the divorce in 1976.
I like to think I would do something too. Something so bold it would surprise even me.
Some half-caste Muslim kills a bunch of women and the Canadian government institutes a meaningless unenforceable gun law penalizing all Canadian citizen as a memorial to the slain women? Most politicians everywhere must be insane.
non-practicing? From that description he was seriously practicing.
Seems to me he was "practicing" normal Muslim behavior...
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