9/14/2006

Kimveer Gill

Do you think this most recent shooting will finally make the lib-left in this country admit that criminals and psychos won't register their guns? Hmmmm? Probably not.


Do you think this most recent shooting will finally make the lib-left in this country admit that criminals and psychos need to be treated like criminals and psychos and held responsible for their actions instead of coddling them like unruly toddlers? Hmmmm? Probably not (Our friend Eugene is blamining video games).


The folks on the lib-left are going to tell us that we have to wait before judging. They're going to tell us that we don't have the facts. They're lying. We have enough facts...

Fact - This psycho used a 9mm semi-automatic rifle and the gun registry didn't stop him.
Fact - This psycho used a 45 cal pistol and the gun registry didn't stop him.
Fact - This psycho used an unspecified 12 cal weapon with the ability of firing 4 bullets at once and the gun registry didn't stop him.

Fact - We, as Canadian taxpayers, dished out $2 Billion to fund a gun registry that has proven time and time and time and time and time again to have no effect on gun crime.

Fact - We don't need the facts of this individual case to draw conclusions based on recent trends!

If you're the praying type, direct some thoughts to a conservative majority in the next election so they can scrap that useless program outright and direct it's funds and energy to something that may actually be effective.

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On the media coverage of this event:

I'm not friggin' impressed...

Here's the story as I got it listening to reporters on the scene:

  1. 4 men in combat fatigues stormed the school
  2. 2 men in combat fatigues stormed the school
  3. The men were all dressed in black trench coats
  4. There were two shooters dead - one by suicide and the other shot by police.
  5. There were no dead.
  6. There was one dead.
  7. There were no civilian deaths.
  8. There were 4 civilian deaths.
  9. And finally today, we've got a more accurate picture: One shooter. Killed by police. One civilian death. Killed by the shooter. Lots of casualities.
It was a clusterfuck of information.

Simply put, the reporters didn't have the facts. They were speculating based on witness interviews. They reported their speculation as fact and changed their reports as more info came in.

Now I understand that the story was unfolding at the time but why not frame it in that sense? Why not state fact as fact and speculation as speculation? The media didn't seem to do that.

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Anyway, I've got another question and I'm sure it's going to get me in some hot water...

Witnesses and the media are reporting that the shooter was a "white guy" nammed "Kimveer Gill". Now, if I'm not mistaken, this is a "white guy":


Does this individual look like the guy above?:


Not so much. In fact, he looks more like this guy (typical middle eastern complexion):


White guys generally have names like Alex, Sam, John, Craig or Wade. Have you ever met a white guy with the name Kimveer?

Does what we're being told by the MSM jive with this guy's name and complexion and how long will it take the lib-left to freak out because I'm asking that question?

I bring this up based on the lessons learned from the Ecole Polytechnique shooting all those years ago. The media and officials told us that Mark Lapine was a white guy who just managed to snap one day. Later we discovered that he was a devout Muslim who was pissed that Canadian women weren't acting the way that good subservient (Muslim) women should act. You never hear the MSM bring those points up during the anniversary candle-light vigils now do you?

They fooled us once and I don't think it's wrong to ask these questions now...