On Saturday, October 3, 2020, someone walked into an apartment at 18 Skipton Court and shot three people.
Gary Douglas Gallant, 36, died at the scene and two other victims were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police identified O’Keal Brown as the suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest for one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Parliamentary Secretary Joël Lightbound, his faithful minion, ignore violent criminals like O’Keal Brown.
Bill Blair and Joël Lightbound prefer to confiscate legally-owned firearms from federally-licensed and RCMP-vetted firearm owners than stop violent criminals by removing illegal guns from the hands of murderers like O’Keal Brown.
“Canadians deserve to live in a society where they can feel safe and secure from gun violence,” Joël Lightbound claimed in his response to Petition e-2341.
That’s the only sentence in Lightbound’s statement I agree with.
Canadians absolutely deserve to feel save in our communities and in our homes.
We can’t do that when our government ignores criminals willing to shoot three people early on a Saturday morning in favour of confiscating guns from people who never hurt anyone.
Joël Lightbound then shamelessly touted the same $327.6 million in funding the Liberals have announced repeatedly for the past five years, although this money has finally begun to flow to provinces and territories.
It’s easy to see where the Liberal government’s priorities are.
All we have to do is follow the money.
This Liberal government can’t stop talking about $327.6 million for their Initiative to Take Action Against Gun and Gang Violence ($65.52 million per year for 5 years).
Firearm confiscation compensation will likely cost over $1 billion in a single year.
Do the math.
Taking guns away from licensed owners is 15,262,515 times more important to this Liberal government than getting guns out of the hands of gang members and other criminals.
That should concern every Canadian, no matter their political affiliation.
Ever since Trudeau the Large and his hard left Solicitor General Jean Pierre Goyer made this pronouncement, society has gone totally downhill in the worst of ways.
On October 7, 1971, Solicitor General Jean Pierre Goyer announced in the House of Commons the Government’s intention to stress rehabilitation of criminals even though it posed a risk to the public. He went on to say that:
“.too many Canadians disregard the fact that the correctional process aims at making the offender a useful and law-abiding citizen, and not any more an individual alienated from society and in conflict with it… Consequently, we have decided from now on to stress the rehabilitation of individuals rather than protection of society.”
Think about the horror of that pronouncement. It is truly evil. So many innocents have suffered, many to death, as known violent predators are released over and over again.
Hi Christopher…here is another example of a Prohibition Breach. Offense date 13-14Oct.
https://blackburnnews.com/sarnia/sarnia-news/2020/10/14/sarnia-man-arrested-fraud-charges-weapon-seized/
I truly enjoy your emails. I am a retired police officer and appreciate the common sense & knowledge you bring to issues.
Take Care
Dave Balun
Thank you for your kind words, Dave! And thank you for your service. I’ve also added the Sarnia breach to my list. Thank you for that.
If this guy keeps killing people, then they should definitely take away his firearm license! What? …. Oh.
Canada does not have a problem with guns. Canada, like the rest of the world, has a problem with politicians who are quockerwodgers for the oligarchical/corporate criminal enterprise called the United Nations. Civil disarmament is a necessary key component for the UN to successfully implement all 17 Sustainable Development Goals of their 2030 Agenda.
For anyone with at least a two-digit IQ, it should be obvious that the Trudeau government actually needs a large criminal element in Canadian society. Without terrorists, murderers, rapists, home invaders and car-jackers, Trudeau would have zero justification for pushing his UN-mandated civil disarmament agenda on Canadians. Through MSM and anti-gun activists, Canadians have been psy-op’ed into hysterical fear of an inanimate object, namely a gun, and a belief that no guns equates to peaceful, safe society.
Disarming civilians has never been about keeping the public safe. Gun prohibitions and confiscations are specific measures for only keeping the government safe. When the government states that nobody needs a gun, that’s precisely the time that every citizen needs to arm themselves. Why should any nation’s government have an exclusive monopoly on the use of lethal force within its own borders? What comes next after the peasants have been disarmed? In the 20th century alone, more than 100 million human beings lost their lives at the hands of their own governments. And all instances were first preceded by disarming the population.
Also observe the past 8 months and take note of how easily people have been coerced into giving up individual freedoms and liberties (stay home, close your business, don’t go to church, wear a mask, get tested, etc.) by way of punitive threats from the government.
Now let’s dig into the details of why the Trudeau government is issuing RFP’s for the design and construction of 11 isolation/detention centres in 9 Canadian cities. Hmmm…..
Hi Chris,
thanks for the regular articles you deliver to us. I look forward to reading them..
I’ve mentioned my background a couple of times here, my history. There was time before C-68 when this subject matter of firearms ownership wasn’t much of a public issue and one could freely talk openly of our pastimes, and when game and habitat was plentiful in this Land of ours and population not so big, so condensed. These things factor into today’s way of thinking and exposure to firearms and related hobbies. I’ve seen a lot since I first held and fired a gun at age eight and progressed to archery and school sponsored training sessions. I could travel with friends at age 14 on public bussing to school with a full compliment of archery gear… the only comments from fellow passengers was one of curiosity and shared stories.
I reflect often on these life events. Happiness..
The older FAC system we had , I believe, was a better system with less stress. We had to meet with the local sergeant of the Municipal police, or RCMP, and they could question us and get a sense of our personality, our need of a firearm[s]. Handguns, same thing but with some extra scrutiny. No need to carry a “PAL” when out and about, just answer any questions honestly. I was okay with that, I enjoyed meeting and talking openly with the Officer. Other police staff would recognize me, the Station back then was even less of a barracks style reinforced enclosure as seen now, very impersonal and intimidating these days.
Now when i am out and about in the backcountry, especially with Pandemic local populations cruising about and wandering about aimlessly, when before early 2020 the backcountry and near-country were calm and private. The culture is changing again.
I see more officials out there checking things out… many working and nonworking homeless living and scratching about there.
I often walk with a gun, seldom hunt nowadays, like to shoot where appropriate [ I do have multiple range memberships since age 14 ] .. Seldom do I bump into a Uniform, I am apprehensive of that thought this day and age, even though I am doing nothing wrong. Recently I did have a forest service road encounter with a RCMP, all good and a pleasant conversation, checked my license, that kind of thing and parted company happily.. his eyes did rise when he saw my 12/6 category and mentioned I am one of the few with those and “looking like I am hanging in there good”. It left me feeling like days of old. I wish we could all return to that, however many ‘old timers’ often report at the Range / Club that these are the exceptions and not the standard.
My thoughts to share today.
Enjoy the Fall, your backcountry out there where you live Chris is an interesting one, we just completed a road trip near to you this past August 2020 and 2019. Used to hunt that region in my 20’s. I feel a need to bring my 4×4 that way next time…
peter.
Next time you’re by this way, make sure you touch base with me first so we can get together for a coffee, Peter. Would be awesome to meet you in person!
This is for Peter. Thanks for that. Chris too. We are on the same page. You might want to read a slightly dated, but still most relevant article I wrote for Canada Free Press some five years ago and follows your reasoning very closely.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-real-abomination-of-the-liberals-c-68-firearms-act
I was a firearms safety instructor for 20 years. I took the job, not to make money, but to be sure everyone had a chance to keep or own firearms and become a shooter, hunter collector or what ever they wanted. I saw a sport with few women or children involved become swamped with interested families that wanted to be part of the shooting sports and to teach their families safety with firearms. All those years I only failed two people. Now the Liberals have all their names and addresses of the people I taught. Was this a plot devised by the liberals to make confiscation easier? I think it could be. We should all be aware of what will happen if the liberals regain power. Our firearms our way of life and our sport are on the chopping block. Firearms owners need to fight back, Even if it means you vote for a party you do not like. There is only one party that will save our firearms, so they say. Lets hope they don’t turn out to be dishonest like the liberals and they follow through with their promises.