This Day in History: Today marks the one year anniversary of the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks. Gabriel Wortman went on a shooting rampage and set fires at 16 locations in Nova Scotia, Canada, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by the RCMP. For part of the thirteen-hour crime spree, Wortman impersonated a police officer by driving a replica police car and wearing a police uniform.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded by banning 1,500 makes and models of guns, even though the guns used in this crime were all already illegally owned. As one RCMP officer noted: “He had no intention of following the law, so banning firearms, banning semi automatic rifles and handguns would not have stopped him...There are strict storage and transportation regulations that go along with those firearms. So there’s a lot of boxes and regulations in place already that this individual did not check.”
Bad people simply ignore laws. Many however believe that laws become spells that forces reality to bend.
The attacks are the deadliest shooting in Canadian history, exceeding the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where fourteen women were killed in 1989.
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