Many say Dawson proof gun law fails
Date: Dec 22, 2006 10:12 AM
PUBLICATION: The Calgary Sun
DATE: 2006.12.22
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PAGE: 48
ILLUSTRATION: photo by CP Students flee Dawson College after reports of
a gunman in the building in Montreal on Sept. 13. The shooting rampage
sparked a new round in the debate over gun control in Canada.
BYLINE: CP
DATELINE: MONTREAL
WORD COUNT: 154

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Many say Dawson proof gun law fails

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When killer Kimveer Gill walked into Dawson College armed with three
weapons, he unleashed a shooting rampage that left one student dead and
hundreds of others facing a lifetime of fear.

Gill triggered a new round in the near-constant battle over gun control
in Canada.

Even the gunman’s mother would like to see changes.

“I’m in favour of gun control, there’s no doubt,” Parwinder Kaur
Gill,
whose family has also been irrevocably damaged, said in an interview.

She would like semi-automatic weapons, such as the ones her son owned,
to come under more rigorous control and she’d like some measures to deal
with mental illness.

Gill was armed with a Beretta semi-automatic rifle, a Glock .45-calibre
pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun when he burst into the college atrium
Sept. 13.

Gill opened fire, injuring 20 students and murdering 18-year-old
Anastasia De Sousa, who was shot nine times at close range.

All of the guns were registered and Gill had met all the criteria for
legal ownership of firearms in Canada.

And that, say gun-control opponents, is the problem with the system put
in place largely due to another horrific event in Montreal — the 1989
Ecole polytechnique massacre.

Opponents say the current gun-control system is useless and does nothing
to stop such tragedies

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !