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| O Canada: Stringent Gun Control Fails to Stop Firearm Attack on Edmonton City Hall | |||
| 2024-01-27 | |||
| [Breitbart] Canada’s stringent gun controls failed to stop a firearm and Molotov cocktail attack Tuesday on Edmonton’s City Hall. The Edmonton Journal reported that the alleged 28-year-old shooter was armed with a long gun when he “entered the building through the parkade, fired shots and threw a Molotov cocktail.” Some councillors were in the building at the time of the attack but were taken to safe locations by police/security. The attack on Edmonton’s City Hall occurred despite Canada’s stringent gun controls. Those gun controls include a ban on “over 1,500 models of assault-style firearms and certain components of some newly prohibited firearms (the upper receivers of M16, AR-10, AR-15, and M4 patterns of firearms),” which went into effect May 1, 2020, according to the Government of Canada. And Canada had ammunition magazine restrictions long before the “assault-style firearms” ban was adopted. Licensing is the law of the land in Canada and passage of a firearm safety course is a requirement for acquiring a license to a own a gun. A license is also necessary to legally acquire and/or possess a firearm. Canada requires extensive background checks on those intending to purchase a firearm. Moreover, Ottawa’s City News reported that beginning July 7, 2021, Canada expanded the scope of the background check conducted so that it looks not simply at the previous five years of a would-be purchaser’s life, but at their entire life. At the same time, the prime minister announced requirements on firearm retailers in Canada were increased. Canada also has a waiting period for gun purchases.
Bezhani Sarvar, 28, appeared by video Thursday in Edmonton's Court of King's Bench. Sarvar had been scheduled for a bail hearing, but his defence lawyer, David Ibrahim, requested that the case be put over while he waits for Crown prosecutors to provide him with the information he needs to prepare for the hearing. Sarvar is next expected to appear in court on Feb. 2. Sarvar has worked for security company Corps of Commissionaires since 2019.
“Before I do my mission, I want you all to know that I am not a psychopath. I do not believe in bloodshed. I am not one of these monsters that hurt children, that hurt innocents,” Sarvar says. “I’m just tired of seeing the tyranny and corruption taking over our society and our lives,” Sarvar says. | |||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 I thought Alberta could rise above Ottawa's insanity. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-01-27 19:36 |