Diplômés et étudiants de l'École
#Polytechnique
, familles de victimes de la tuerie du 6 décembre 1989, qui militent pour un meilleur contrôle des armes
Fun fact:
#handgun
owners represent less than 1% of 🇨🇦Canadians. Another fun fact: 70% of 🇨🇦Canadians support a total ban on
#handguns
(total number of handgun owners: around 300K; total number of Canadians: 38 million)
#math
#HandgunFreeze
#BillC21
#cdnpoli
While we were students at
#Polytechnique
, we gathered 500,000+ signatures on a paper petition. But what really matters is what the public wants & 80% of Canadians support banning
#AssaultWeapons
. The
@liberal_party
gvt did the democratic thing.
@joeldryden
Many who are complaining that the
@liberal_party
#C21
amendment bans hunting guns are pointing to the "GSG-16" as an example. Why would a .22 rimfire rifle be banned? Might have something to do with the fact it accepts a 110-ROUND DRUM which no self-respecting hunter would use
"CANADIAN sports shooters and their guns are never involved in any mass shooting or shootings, period."
Except when they are...
#BanAssaultWeapons
#BanHandguns
#C21
@TerryCormier14
@CPC_HQ
Because CANADIAN sports shooters and their guns are never involved in any mass shooting or shootings, period. We are some of the most highly trained, safe and competent firearm owners out there. Our sport is being erased and we are being punished for things we did not do.
Mass shooting survivor & spokeswoman for PolySeSouvient says it's “incredibly disrespectful” for gun rights advocates to invoke their name in an online sale discount code.
#CCFR
’s recently offered 10% off merchandise to customers using “POLY” as promo code
🔥BREAKING🔥 Federal court upholds 2020 OICs banning firearms "that are inherently dangerous and have the capacity to inflict severe harm." Pro-Gun groups lost on all counts. The ruling is explicit and unequivocal
#BanAssaultWeapons
Anyone buying a gun in Western Australia🇦🇺 will have to undergo mandatory and ongoing mental health checks, as part of a complete overhaul of the state's 50-year-old firearms legislation
#prevention
#GunControl
Calling him “nice guy who snapped” is absurd: he planned rampage, had violent temper, was a misogynist & estranged from parents. Friends knew of illegal guns & replica police cars - red flags that should have led to police investigation
@pipson52
#Cdnpoli
THANK YOU
@marcomendicino
and
@RachelBendayan
for having delivered on
#GunControl
. Canada is a different country today. The new bill will move 🇨🇦 in the right direction, so that we never follow the path taken by our neighbours to the South
- Families & survivors, PolySeSouvient
Full-page ad paid by 🇨🇦
#GunLobby
shows that the only way they can appeal to Canadians is to fear monger on other issues (your land, bank accounts) without ever mentioning the type of guns being banned since
@liberal_party
ran on this & 80% of 🇨🇦support
#BanAssaultWeapons
#cdnpoli
Washington state to ban entire classes of guns (AK-47 AR-15 M-16 M-4), dozens of specific models as well as semi-automatics with multiple accessories like telescoping stocks, threaded barrels for muzzle brakes, flash suppressors or silencers & pistol grips
The Liberals handgun freeze is worse than useless.
Edmonton's Police Chief says it will undermine public safety by increasing smuggling & black market activity.
They should take the Chief's advice: scrap the handgun freeze & go after criminals instead of law-abiding Canadians.
Do Sound Moderators have a place in Canada?
Are firearm sound moderators a health and safety benefit, or as Hollywood movies 📽️ like to portray them - a tool for assassins? 🙄
Did you know the majority of G7 countries recognize these devices as essential? So why not Canada? 🇨🇦
#Alberta
Premier & Justice Minister announce close to $13M to speed up processing of licence applications, transfers & authorizations to carry, calling fed’s plan to freeze
#handgun
purchases "an infringement on gun owners’ property rights"
@DylanShort_
Shame on
@nationalpost
for continuing to post this "top story" which wrongly corroborates
@CPC_HQ
& gun lobby
#disinformation
re
#C21
, claiming amendments would ban specific hunting guns despite repeated corrections by gvt officials 1/2
@TristinHopper
Question: Who is making these threats?
Public Safety Minister
@marcomendicino
says he has been the subject of death threats on social media in recent weeks after presenting a bill to curb gun ownership
#BillC21
#cdnpoli
If you think a "POLY" promo code for pro-gun merchandise such as T-shirts with slogans like "FIREARM RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS" is tasteless, consider this online supplier who's been selling actual gun magazines with the promo code
#POLYLIES
for the last year
Canadians want a ban on assault-style weapons: Numerous surveys have shown that the overwhelming majority of 🇨🇦s don’t want to see these weapons in this country. Ban won’t totally eliminate danger, but it is a good first step says
@ChmlBillKelly
.
#cdnpoli
.
@CPC_HQ
senator asks “How can your gvt have spent $42M when not a single firearm has been bought back?” re
#AssaultWeapons
. Maybe because they're still setting up system made more complicated by pro-gun provinces' active opposition & refusal to cooperate?
Remember in May 2020, when
@liberal_party
issued 1st set of OICs banning 1,400 models of
#AssaultWeapons
? The
#GunLobby
screamed - just as loud as they're screaming today - that it targeted hunting guns. Turned out they lied. Why should we believe them today?
#FearMongering
#C21
Families, survivors & witnesses of
#Polytechnique
massacre have fought to ban these weapons for over 30 yrs. This is a great first step, but we still need to fight for a
#TotalBan
since the
@liberal_party
government is contemplating allowing current owners to keep them.
#cdnpoli
#Polytechnique
survivors honoured for making women safer from gun violence: Nathalie Provost & Heidi Rathjen have lobbied for stricter
#GunControl
for 34 yrs. "It takes a lot of courage & leadership to be able to achieve what they have done" -
@NAWL_ANFD
Yesterday, Queen’s University
@queensu
awarded an honorary degree to Nathalie Provost: "An accomplished engineer and civil servant, Dr. Provost is also a survivor of the 1989 massacre that targeted women at École Polytechnique in Montréal. Following those tragic events, she has
This is the KEL-TEC SUB-2000 that 🇨🇦 gun industry rep considers a "hunting gun". It's currently legal & non-restricted, but would have been banned under amendments G4 & G46. Kinda helps put in perspective the
#GunLobby
's cries & warnings about hunting rifles being banned...
#C21
"There are some weapons that are used for hunting that unfortunately fall on the wrong side of the line. Not many. But there are some that are slightly overpowered or have too large a magazine capacity or (other) technical reasons" -
@JustinTrudeau
“Applying federal laws, whether it relates to firearms or any offence under the Criminal Code, is not an a-la-carte menu. You don't get to opt out & tell the RCMP which laws they're going to enforce or not" says
@marcomendicino
#cdnpoli
@rachaiello
If
@RCMPNS
had done their jobs correctly in years leading up to the murders they might have found the illegal guns in the future gunman’s possession: “The perpetrator’s violence & illegal firearms came to the attention of police on repeated occasions”
#MCC
#RideauHall
intruder had 405 rounds of .308-cal ammunition for his (newly prohibited) Chinese semi-auto version of M-14, enough for a major rampage. Can pierce standard bullet-proof vests & used in 2014 to kill 3 Moncton
#RCMP
.
@Murray_Brewster
@PhilipLing
Jacinda Ardern, who quickly banned the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons after a white supremacist gunned down 51 Muslim worshippers, wins outright majority - something that hasn't happened in New Zealand in 24 years
#Bravo
#GunControl
#cdnpoli
"We banned over 1500 models of assault-style firearms, incl the weapon used at
#Polytechnique
. We implemented national handgun freeze.. and through
#BillC21
we can implement some of the strongest measures in 🇨🇦history to tackle gun
#Dec6
#progress
🙏
#BanAllAssaultWeapons
We must never forget these 14 names. As we honour the memory of these young women, we must keep working to eliminate gender-based violence – and to end the violent misogyny that led to the tragedy at Polytechnique.
Oh look, the 🇺🇸
#NRA
is lecturing 🇨🇦Canadians on gun control, warning us about cost of
@liberal_party
proposed buy-back program for military-style assault rifles while conveniently omitting any mention of human & medical costs of mass shootings
#cdnpoli
Unbelievable. Head of Canadian
#GunLobby
group equating being a gun owner in 🇨🇦 with being an African American facing discrimination & police brutality in the 🇺🇸...
Black *lives* matter. Owning an *assault weapon* doesn't.
#Protests2020
#GoergeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#cdnpoli
Criminal negligence causing death: “Those involved in the trafficking of illegal firearms show a wanton and reckless disregard for the lives of others by putting a lethal weapon into the hands of someone who is likely to use it for a dangerous purpose”
Gun trolls & lobbyists keep tagging us in posts of gang members using illegal guns, as if they negate crimes involving legal guns. They don't. One set of crimes doesn't make the other disappear. Both simultaneously exist & both require specific solutions
#CrimeControl
#GunControl
"The culture of
@CPC_HQ
today is starkly different from culture of PCs that Mulroney led. For example: Law & order. Mulroney & Kim Campbell as justice minister introduced effective
#GunControl
legislation in 1991. The current CPC is hostile to a lot of sensible gun control
In wake of
#NovaScotia
rampage, 🇨🇦Prime minister
@JustinTrudeau
said his gvt would move ahead on gun control as promised during last election, explaining they were “on the verge” of banning “assault-style weapons” when the pandemic hit.
#cdnpoli
@a_coletta
Canadians should be worried that a
@CPC_HQ
leadership candidate feels at ease pushing the most radical 🇺🇸
#NRA
pro-gun measures for 🇨🇦, like arming for self-protection, re-legalizing
#AssaultWeapons
, upping limits on magazine capacity & hunting with handguns
#ThisIsCanada
#cdnpoli
6-yr-old taken to hospital with serious injuries after 4-yr-old shoots him after gaining access to a gun at home, North of
#Winnipeg
.
@rcmpmb
seized five guns, says man was arrested and faces charge of unlawfully storing firearm
#cdnpoli
Hi
@CanadianTire
. Are you sure you want to be associated with the
#CCFR
& its PublicRelations VP? Their primary goal is to lobby
#Ottawa
to promote non-existing gun "rights" & they frequently launch organized attacks against victims of gun violence & gun control advocates
#polcan
Gun lobby &
@CPC_HQ
disinformation has won. Many reporters & MPs have been fooled. A close look at
#CCFR
's claims shows they are ALL false or misleading: the ONLY model among all those they warn would be banned by
#C21
is the
#SKS
, a soviet military weapon
11 more guns banned by RCMP reclassification under
@BillBlair
’s OIC - Shotguns and bolt action rifles dominate the list. This has nothing to do with
#AssaultyStyled
- you’re being lied to. People are dying from gang violence and they’re chasing hunters
“We're working with various organizations & groups to make sure that people understand that we're not going after people's right to hunt, but we are ensuring that our communities are as safe as possible moving forward” -
@JustinTrudeau
#BillC21
@JonVPerez
Incredibly
@erinotoole
still refusing to answer questions about whether he would ban or legalize weapons used in mass shootings like
#Poly
; claims he won't import "US-style divisive politics" while his platform promises to import US-style gun laws
#Elxn44
Number of death threats against cabinet ministers increasing. In 2022, the then-public safety minister
@marcomendicino
had received death threats after introducing
#GunControl
bill into the House
@stephenejeffery
Hello
@TWilsonOttawa
. Please share your evidence that we - PolySeSouvient - have been "well funded for decades" and are "making a career" our of our advocacy. If you have none, you should refrain from making such claims.
Canada🇨🇦 and United States🇺🇸 agree to trace guns that are intercepted at the border, a move meant to enhance efforts to stop the smuggling of handguns to the north from the world's biggest private firearm market
#progress
#cdnpoli
Hi Michelle,
A few
#FunFacts
:
* Poly students collected over ½ million signatures on a paper petition calling for a
#Ban
on
#AssaultWeapons
* polls consistently show 8 of 10 🇨🇦s support
* 64% of MPs stem from parties that ran on
#Ban
* 230K represents about 1% of all gun owners
The largest Parliamentary petition in Cdn history, e-2574, has closed and been certified with 230,905 signatures. Thank you to the Canadians who stood up in support of safer communities and against the confiscation of legally owned property. I can’t wait to officially table it!
While radical positions on guns & freedom are welcome in pro-gun echo chambers throughout social media, most 🇨🇦s consider these views to be abhorrent & airing them actually increases support for
#GunControl
especially
#AssaultWeaponBan
#cdnpoli
@timnaumetz
Stanford University researchers find that people who live with handgun owners have a much higher rate of being fatally shot by a spouse or intimate partner. The vast majority of such victims, 84%, are women.
Given that
@canadapostcorp
is a crown corporation owned by federal gvt that has vast experience in delivering guns sold by manufacturers & retail stores, its refusal to provide its expertise for gvt's
#AssaultWeapons
buyback program (which majority of 🇨🇦s support) is unacceptable
Canada Post is refusing to collect firearms that were banned by the federal government in 2020, complicating Ottawa's plans for a buyback program to remove 144,000 firearms from private hands, federal sources say. .
Trudeau’s Senators just passed the latest part of his plan to ban hunting rifles.
He's going after trained and tested, law-abiding Canadians instead of gangs and gun smugglers.
Common sense Conservatives will stop the Liberal hunting rifle ban and go after the real criminals
As PM, I’ll scrap the politically-motivated ban announced by Trudeau today and will focus on working with border and law enforcement on stopping illegal gun smugglers.
I will also stop the Liberal soft on crime approach for partner violence and criminal use of weapons.
Yes, please tell Canadians how you consider the .50 calibre anti-material AW50 sniper rifle that can hit a target at 1,5 km and pierce light armoured vehicles as NOT being "assaulty-style" and that it should be legal for private recreational use..
#cdnpoli
Hahaha
@Polysesouvient
slams the
@CCFR_CCDAF
for “type of gun” used and then themselves uses a bolt action rifle ... is this “assaulty-styled” to them? Really? A bolt action single shot.
This is what happens when you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about
#SitDown
🤦🏼♀️
Police seize drugs & 53 guns (incl 24 prohibited or restricted) from
#NB
home. 27yr-old woman charged "for possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition, without a licence or registration" (so 52 others were legal?)
#TooManyGuns
#cdnpoli
During
#GunControl
hearings, death threats were made to “non-partisan members of public service." Chair "had to warn Conservatives to tone down .. the way they were questioning (them) because it was directly impacting their safety” -
@PamDamoff
@TondaMacC
Actually, there is plenty of evidence that manufacturers design military-style firearms specifically to "comply with" (read: "circumvent") 🇨🇦Canadian law ... to make them non-restricted. That is why we need an evergreen definition
#SaveC21
#BanAssaultWeapons
Very interesting, not only is there no evidence that manufactures are trying to circumvent Canadian firearms laws, they actually manufacture firearms specifically to comply with our laws.
#Japan
’s tough gun laws mean gun-crime is almost zero. In 2022
#Canada
clocked 14K violent gun incidents (pop 40M) while Japan had 9 (pop 125M). That’s cause getting a gun is a major endeavour & only shotguns & rifles can be bought, writes
@TashaKheiriddin
#GunTroll
thinks seriously injured 6-yr-old boy shot by his 4-yr-old brother with father's unsafely stored gun is our "gun laws working as intented" because the father will be charged. Sorry, this is not how gun laws should work: they should PREVENT such terrible incidents
@Polysesouvient
@rcmpmb
In other words… someone broke firearm laws that already exist and will be charged appropriately. Gun laws are working as intended.
Gun control electoral platforms: Families of victims & survivors of gun violence are telling Canadians the
@liberal_party
commitments are the strongest of all parties while the
@CPC_HQ
represent the greatest threat to gun control in Canada
#cdnpoli
#elxn43
These are weapons
#Alberta
Justice Minister
@shandro
is referring to when he says "assault-style" is a just "a label designed to scare 🇨🇦dians who are unfamiliar with firearms .. a description based purely on appearance (and) politically motivated"
#abpoli
Internal gvt polling done over summer supports notion that
@liberal_party
are on the winning side of the
#GunControl
issue. From 4,000 Canadians polled: 70% in favour of “capping the market and banning the sale and import of handguns in 🇨🇦”
#C21
@davidakin
4 survivors of 2017
#QuebecMosque
mass shooting who tried to stop gunman awarded medals of bravery by
@GGCanada
Mary Simon. One honoured posthumously. 6 were killed & 19 injured when gunman burst into Islamic Centre with legal
#handgun
&
#Assaultweapon
"Police said they could not comment on whether the suspected gunman was a registered firearms owner."
Why not? The gunman is dead. This information is readily available to police and government authorities.
@FakihaBaig
So now it’s not just about “hunting tools”, but also about guns used by “sports shooters”? Would those include “handguns” and “military-style weapons”? Cause target shooting is the main reason for which those 2 types of guns can be legally owned
#question
Columnist
@mattgurney
lectures
@DavidLametti
, telling him it's "impossible" to do what numerous other countries incl NewZeland, Australia, Norway, UK & 9 🇺🇸states have managed to do: ban assault weapons. Says to "just drop it", the hell with public safety