[tarheelswamprat]

The issue is particularly emotional in Quebec. The registry was the result of an intense lobbying campaign in the wake of the Polytechnique massacre, where 14 female students were gunned down in 1989 with a hunting rifle.

As you stated, the Polytechnique massacre would not have been prevented by the registry. What allowed it to occur was the abject cowardice of the male students who obediently filed out of the room and stood by cowering in the hallway while listening to the shooter murdering the women. If only a few of them had rushed the shooter they could have easily taken him down. We have raised a generation of wussified cowards who don't deserve to be called men.

[ArmyTeach]

You're absolutely right, of course, but unfortunately the powers that be today discourage individuals from taking action in an emergency like this... Then the powers that be turn up too late to do anything, a day late and a dollar short.

[Polynikes]

As a side note the Polytechnique massacre which was the event that set the stage for gun registration/confiscation was done by Marc Lepine. His real name was Gamil Gharbi, son an abusive Algerian father. It looks to be an early case of SJS. The politically correct refused to id him for what he was, a crazy misogynistic muslim.