Polytechnique mass shooting survivor slams gun rights group for using ‘POLY’ promo code | 24CA News

A mass taking pictures survivor and spokesperson for gun-control group PolySeSouvient says it’s “incredibly disrespectful” for firearm rights advocates to invoke the group’s title in a merchandise sale low cost code.

The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights’ on-line store just lately provided 10 per cent off clothes, mugs and different gadgets to prospects who used “POLY” as a promo code.

A gunman killed 14 girls at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.

Nathalie Provost, who was shot 4 occasions in the course of the rampage, is now spokesperson for PolySeSouvient, a gaggle that features graduates and college students of the college who push for stricter gun legal guidelines.

Provost stated it isn’t shocking the coalition did the gross sales promotion so near the Polytechnique anniversary, given it has dismissed the occasion as an anomaly that doesn’t warrant altering gun legal guidelines.

Tracey Wilson, a firearm rights coalition spokesperson, stated the promotion is just not concerning the tragedy, however about PolySeSouvient’s Twitter account, which has referred to coalition supporters as gun trolls.

“We want a reduction to crime, violence and gun smuggling — they want a reduction in legal gun ownership,” Wilson stated.

Provost stated that because the anniversary approaches, PolySeSouvient is especially centered on the gun file as MPs examine a authorities invoice that might enshrine a definition of prohibited assault-style firearms, a ban for which the group has been preventing for 33 years.

The coalition for firearm rights and Conservative MPs have denounced the transfer as an assault on law-abiding, licensed gun homeowners.

The coalition stated this week the federal government’s final aim is to ban all civilian possession of firearms in Canada.

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A brand new authorities proposal will make extra firearms unlawful in Canada, including many shotguns and semi-automatic rifles to the banned checklist.

Asked concerning the coalition’s merchandise promotion Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau underscored his authorities’s gun-control plans.

“Unfortunately, we see the gun lobby working with the Conservative Party of Canada to spread misinformation, to use fear, to sow division by trying to mislead Canadians,” Trudeau stated at an occasion in British Columbia.

“While we will always respect the rights of law-abiding hunters and farmers to use shotguns and rifles, there are certain guns that have no place in our communities, no place anywhere in Canada.”