Canadian Gun Control Advocates Want Info on Guns Used in Tumbler Ridge Shooting

The Tumbler Ridge shooting was pretty terrible, but it also exposed the flaws in Canada’s gun control scheme. While everyone up that way seems to want to pat themselves on the back for responding as they did to the Nova Scotia shooting in 2020, Tumbler Ridge made it clear that you can’t just legislate away death and destruction.

Hell, the shooter had even been red-flagged, and still was able to carry out the attack.

Now, gun grabbers in the Great White North are demanding information on what kind of guns were used in the attack, though authorities aren’t willing to give that information out just yet.

The police investigation into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting is in its final stages, but releasing information prematurely could compromise the probe, British Columbia Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger said Thursday.

Krieger said that she understands the public’s desire for answers about the shooting.

Her comments come after two gun control advocacy groups renewed calls for information about the firearms used in the mass shooting in February.

PolySeSouvient and Danforth Families for Safe Communities said the RCMP has a duty to disclose which guns were involved in the Feb. 10 shootings that left nine people dead, including [killer’s name redacted], the 18-year-old assailant.

The groups said in a media statement that withholding the information about the guns prevents informed debate about Canada’s gun control laws and how they are enforced.

The statement said the RCMP has not explained how disclosing the models and legal status of the firearms would compromise the ongoing police investigation.

The two groups were among five advocacy organizations that told the RCMP in a March letter that they were “alarmed and disappointed” that the force had not yet released basic information about the guns.

Now, I don’t know why the RCMP isn’t releasing that kind of information, since authorities here release it pretty much as soon as they know, and it’s never interfered with an investigation in the US so far as I’m aware.

That said, we all know that the reason they want the guns identified is so they can start lobbying to ban them, so screw those twerps.

I’m not going to lie, though, I want to know what guns were used, too.

We already know that Canada cracked down on both modern sporting rifles and handguns in recent years, so I’m curious exactly what was used by the killer, if for no other reason than to show that when someone wants to hurt others, it literally doesn’t matter what kind of guns are available to them, they’ll find a way to kill a bunch of people.

This killer, for example, murdered more people than many AR-15-equipped killers that spur so much gun control debate here in the US, and if it turns out he used a pump-action shotgun to do it, wouldn’t that make it pretty clear that it’s not the tool, but the tool using it that’s the problem?

Of course, we don’t know what kind of gun was used. We don’t know if they were legally possessed, black market, or anything of the kind. We simply don’t have the information, and when we do get it, the debate will begin and will likely get a bit ugly, especially considering the anti-gun rampage these groups have already been on with the help of a complicit, anti-gun government up there. Still, they want to know so they can try and ban them.

I want to know in order to prove a point that no ban will ever be enough.