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Next Sept.13, 15 years will have passed since a young man from Laval carried out a mass shooting at Dawson College with a semi-automatic assault weapon and a handgun. In mere minutes, he shot 20 victims, one of whom was Anastasia De Sousa, my daughter. Anastasia was shot 12 times at close range. She died of her injuries. She was 18.
The gun lobby argues the “problem” of gun violence does not concern legal gun owners but rather “criminals” or “gangs” with illegal guns. This is demonstrably false. While half of gun homicides are related to gangs, the other half are not. Most mass shooters are legal gun owners, including the Dawson gunman. In fact, Kimveer Gill was a member of the same gun club where professor Valery Fabrikant trained before murdering four of his colleagues at Concordia University in 1992.
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Tom Mulcair: Team Trudeau is getting set for a spring election From gun control to languages, the Liberals have been checking the boxes on unfulfilled promises and making new ones on the pandemic front.
Author of the article: Tom Mulcair • Special to Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Feb 23, 2021 • February 23, 2021 • 3 minute read • Economic Development and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly looks on as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Friday, October 2, 2020. The policy paper on official languages that Joly presented last week had a little something for everyone, Tom Mulcair writes. Photo by Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA Gun control advocates are blasting Ottawa’s “empty shell” firearms legislation, saying its primary function is to provide Liberal talking points rather than curb gun violence through sensible reforms.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has drawn fierce criticism from both sides of the firearms debate with the tabling of Bill C-21, which extends some penalties for firearms-related offences. Many gun owners say the legislation arbitrarily targets law-abiding citizens, while gun control advocates say it fails to get guns out of the hands of potential risks to the public.
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