Canada's Long Gun Registry

[Kootenai]

The long gun registry, now defunct in Canada, except Quebec, was fuelled mainly by the murders of the women in Montreal by Marc Lepine. We all remember that horror story.

What was never released by the media was just who was 'Marc Lepine'? His real name was Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi. His father was a strict Algerian Muslim. His father raised him in his faith, thus, hated women who tried to accomplish things in life.

Gamil Gharbi 'aka' Marc Lepine committed Canada's first act of true terrorism, complete with suicide.

It was this horrendous act of terrorism that was used to trigger the Liberal government of Canada to take control of our guns, rather than telling us to oil them.

Why was the media silent on this fact? Why did the government not want us to know this?

Gharbi was a Canadian by birth, but he was not a Canadian, he was an Algerian terrorist, and because of his terrorist act, patriotic Canadians suffered, and paid.

[Ryry4]

The media was silent because that is what fit their agenda.

[silverdoctor]

You may want to read up on the FLQ Kootenai and their doings back in the 60's and 70's.

lepine a terrorist? I think not. A little radical? definitely. He was an athiest. He claimed to be fighting feminism, and that was his reasoning for killing all those women. He took his mothers maiden name, Lepine, cause he didn't like his father - nor did he like being taunted as an Arab.

I f'n hate the word terrorist, oooooh, big scary word. It's used way too often like "hero".

[Okotokian]

Originally Posted by Kootenai

What was never released by the media was just who was 'Marc Lepine'? His real name was Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi. His father was a strict Algerian Muslim. His father raised him in his faith, thus, hated women who tried to accomplish things in life.

Why was the media silent on this fact? Why did the government not want us to know this?

Gharbi was a Canadian by birth, but he was not a Canadian, he was an Algerian terrorist, and because of his terrorist act, patriotic Canadians suffered, and paid.

Here's the link to the CBC archives. Under "did you know" it talks about his Algerian name and roots. http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categorie...-murderer.html

And to say "he was not Canadian, he was an Algerian terrorist" is ridiculous. He was born, raised, and educated here. And only his father was Algerian. His mother was French-Canadian and born in Canada. So how many generations in does someone become Canadian in your books? LOL

[220swifty]

Why was the media silent on this fact? Why did the government not want us to know this?

Governments in general fear armed populaces. This is how it should be, it keeps them honest. An armed population is akin to a boss who will fire an employee at any time. The employee (government) makes damn sure they are contributing to advancing the company (nation) at all times.

This being said, politicians are greasy creatures. They know they can manipulate the will of the people easier when they play emotions, rather than logic. Given the party in government at the time, they had an agenda to execute, and gun control was part of it. They spotted an emotional catylist that they could milk to further this agenda, and they milked it dry. If you read some of the recent articles about further rescinding portions of c-68, you will note some of these very people are still pulling at that teat.

This tactic of emotional surfing (riding a wave of emotion to acheive an end goal of otherwise contetious government action) is common in all democracys, regardless of the political orientation of the governing powers. The media, in general, is the puppet master, and will put a biased spin in its reporting that best serves it's interests, whatever they may be.

Welcome to our 'free society'

[midgetwaiter]

Originally Posted by Okotokian

Here's the link to the CBC archives. Under "did you know" it talks about his Algerian name and roots. http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categorie...-murderer.html

You beat me to it Oko. The Current did an interview with his Mother when she wrote a book a few years ago. It's pretty interesting.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+C...ID/2271404753/

[leo]

Originally Posted by 220swifty

Governments in general fear armed populaces. This is how it should be, it keeps them honest. An armed population is akin to a boss who will fire an employee at any time. The employee (government) makes damn sure they are contributing to advancing the company (nation) at all times.

This being said, politicians are greasy creatures. They know they can manipulate the will of the people easier when they play emotions, rather than logic. Given the party in government at the time, they had an agenda to execute, and gun control was part of it. They spotted an emotional catylist that they could milk to further this agenda, and they milked it dry. If you read some of the recent articles about further rescinding portions of c-68, you will note some of these very people are still pulling at that teat.

This tactic of emotional surfing (riding a wave of emotion to acheive an end goal of otherwise contetious government action) is common in all democracys, regardless of the political orientation of the governing powers. The media, in general, is the puppet master, and will put a biased spin in its reporting that best serves it's interests, whatever they may be.

Welcome to our 'free society'

Bingo! Nothing stirs up and provides an emotional platform for a governing body like a tragedy of this magnitude, 911 being a prime example.

[Hagalaz]

Originally Posted by Ryry4

The media was silent because that is what fit their agenda.

Agreed.

[KegRiver]

Back in 1995 when the long gun registry was in the makings I challenged people to do a time-line of the news events of that year.

There were two major news events from a Canadian prospective. The gun control issue and the referendum.

It is uncanny how the time line shows the two stories meshing from beginning to end. Does it mean anything? I don't know.

But I do know that the Marc Lépine incident happened in August 1989. Jean Chrétien became leader of the opposition in 1990. He made no mention of the Marc Lépine incident or of gun control until 1995, two years after he became Prime minister in 1993.
Then, in 1995 it became a huge priority to get his gun control law through parliament as fast as possible.
In fact so much so that he imposed his will on the party in ways that had never been done before. And he took a number of other actions that were unprecedented, just to get this bill through parliament and the senate in less then a year. Such bills usually take years to make it into law.

Then when it had passed the senate and was read into law, the big rush was gone. Chrétien announced that he would implement this new law a bit at a time over the next five years.

Why was it so urgent in the spring but no big hurry after Christmas?

I really don't believe bill C68 had anything to do with the École Polytechnique shooting.

[KegRiver]

The OP is about the long gun registry gentlemen.
If you want to discuss the Muslim religion please start a thread for that.

[Fishtooth]

[wwbirds]

There is no firearms registry in Canada anymore so why debate it at all. good riddance.

[Cyclops]

Originally Posted by Fishtooth

Love this! Gonna be sending it to many people I know forthwith.