Why the rifle used in the Polytechnique shooting remains legal, 30 years later

Nice to see the state-controlled media beginning the attack on what they deemed a "military style assault rifle". What a joke, sure; cowards have misused this tool to inflict evil on others. If we're to ban this, lets ban everything else we've misused. Lets start with Cars.

Given that they specifically put talk of a "military-style ban" into the throne speech yesterday I expect the upcoming attack on firearm owners to be massive, worse even than the one Chretien perpetrated in the 1990's and with the over-priced debacle of the gun registry. If they though the Wexit talk had subsided enough in the last several weeks that they could be safe to start attacking us again then just wait for what their gun-ban talk will set off. It'll make the rage over the election results look tame in comparison.

I've written it before, the only reason they want these weapons banned is because of the way they look. It won't ban weapons that act exactly the same, with exactly the same ammo, and it will do nothing to change the "why" of mass shooters.

None of this will. These attacks only affect responsible, honest, law-abiding citizens.

They're just pussies who watch too much TV.

Nothing new under the sun and there's little point in trying to reason with them when their fears are irrationally based to begin with.

Better get used to this..

Trudeau didn't succeed in rigging the jury selection process on racial lines after he threw his tantrum over the Gerald Stanley not-guilty verdict in the Boushie shooting. Therefore he'd obviously going for the tried-and-true and SCC-approved alternative in a massive ban over as many firearms as possible. Doing this on the 30th anniversary of the Marc Lepine massacre just fits into his plans even that much more.

I'm sure this impending gun ban will heal the east-west chasm that has developed over the years and completely eliminate gun violence in Canada.

A gun ban isn't necessary, what was necessary after Ecole Polytechnique was a ban on high-capacity magazines and better police training vis-a-vis mass shooter situations.

Both of those have happened and as a result, mass shootings in Canada have been significantly reduced.

Even when we do have a shooting, because of those two changes, casualties are much lower than in the US where they only adopted one of those two changes (better crisis response training for police officers).

They always go after the legally license people. So if we are the problem, then after all these bans, the cops don't need carbines nor tactical units anymore. Clearly the problem will be gone.