Polytechnique shooting survivor objects to firearm coalition’s ‘disrespectful’ sales promotion | 24CA News
A mass taking pictures survivor and spokeswoman 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 not too long ago supplied 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 École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.
Nathalie Provost, who was shot 4 instances in the course of the rampage, is now spokeswoman for PolySeSouvient, a bunch that features graduates and college students of the college who press for stricter gun legal guidelines.
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Provost stated it’s not 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 spokeswoman, stated the promotion just isn’t concerning the tragedy, however 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 may 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 house owners.
The coalition stated this week the federal government’s final purpose is to ban all civilian possession of firearms in Canada.
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.”
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