MPs Are Way Off Target: Long Gun Registry Makes Canada a Safer Place - XDTalk Forums

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Canada's long-gun registry was a product of tragedy, a response to the massacre of 14 young women at Montreal's École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. A registry was a rational step toward trying to make sure that the country would never again experience mass murder. The Polytechnique killer, Marc Lépine, used a semi-automatic gun that allowed him to shoot 28 people in 22 minutes. Few... [Montreal Gazette (Quebec), via gunpolicy.org ]

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11-06-2009, 04:00 PM	#1
XDTalk RSS XDTalk Robot News Feed Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,507	MPs Are Way Off Target: Long Gun Registry Makes Canada a Safer Place Canada's long-gun registry was a product of tragedy, a response to the massacre of 14 young women at Montreal's École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. A registry was a rational step toward trying to make sure that the country would never again experience mass murder. The Polytechnique killer, Marc Lépine, used a semi-automatic gun that allowed him to shoot 28 people in 22 minutes. Few... [Montreal Gazette (Quebec), via gunpolicy.org ] More...
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