by Alec Kohut
Get ready liberals and progressives. The crazy right-wing gun nuts are already churning out stories about how Canada’s strict gun laws did not prevent Wednesday's tragedy in Ottawa, and already are using it as evidence to the failure of gun regulations.
After all, if gun laws really worked, how did such a tragedy occur in a country with such strict gun regulations?
The answer is simple, the gun regulations did work, and saved human lives on Wedesday.
Let’s first look at the facts. At this point the shooting rampage has left one Canadian soldier dead, and a report of another injured. (Reported to be shot in the foot at this time.) Let me say that again, a shooting rampage in Canada left one person dead. One.
After shooting the soldier dead, the terrorist entered the Canadian Parliament Building with a double barrel shotgun, and killed nobody there. Nobody. Once security forces identified the threat, it wasn’t a contest. The gunman was shot dead and order was restored with the loss of only one innocent person dead.
Please do not think I am minimizing the loss of Canadian reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, I am not. I am Would it not be a step in the right directions if massacres by James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Wade Page, Jared Loughner, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, would be limited to one or deaths as in the incident in Ottawa today?
Canada’s gun laws worked. The shooter did not have a semi-automatic rifle with 30-round magazines, or anything close. He had what is being reported as a double barrel shotgun. Why? Because it’s hard, really, really hard in Canada to amass an arsenal of guns and ammo to stage a mass killing.
He was completely outgunned by the good guys. Canada’s gun laws worked!
The terrorist was unable to acquire the weapons of mass murder that are far, far too easily is acquire here at home, where mass shootings here involving dozens dead is far, far too common.
So hat’s off to our friends in the Great White North, for the courage and common sense to enact gun safety laws which greatly limited the number of deaths that could have been witnessed on Wednesday.