LILLEY: RCMP and feds atone for sins by using legal gun owners as scapegoats
Brian Lilley
Published: May 13, 2020
Updated: May 13, 2020 5:06 PM EDT
In the time when Moses was leading the Israelites through the desert in search of the promised land there was a ritual for ridding the people of their sins — it was called a scapegoat.
Two goats would be chosen, one would be sacrificed on the altar, the other would have the sins of the people cast upon it.
“The goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat,” Leviticus 16:10.
It may seem like an odd ritual, but we keep it up to this day only now we blame people or groups of people for the failings of others. Like the attempt to blame legal and licensed gun owners for events such as the mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
We now know the shooter, Gabriel Wortman, never had a gun licence and none of his firearms were legally purchased. We also know two people, including his own father, had reported Wortman to the RCMP telling them about his violence and his illegal stash of guns.
Yet nothing ever happened.
In a news released earlier this week, the Mounties said Wortman left his home with four firearms — two handguns and two rifles.
“One of the guns has been traced to Canada. The remaining guns that were recovered are believed to have been obtained in the United States,” the RCMP said in their release.
Over the past 15 years, members of the RCMP have reported more than 640 guns issued to them as lost and more than 175 stolen.
Last year, an RCMP service pistol was stolen from the car of an off-duty member in downtown Halifax.
I’m willing to bet given how much Wortman wanted to have everything from the uniform to the car just like a real Mountie, that he found a way to acquire one of those lost or stolen guns and that is why the RCMP won’t tell us more about the guns he used.
Yet, licensed and legal gun owners are being used as the scapegoat to atone for the sins of the RCMP here. Just as they are the scapegoat for the RCMP not dealing with reports of Wortman beating his common-law spouse and having an illegal stash of guns.
Brenda Forbes — a former neighbour of Wortman in Portapique, NS, where the massacre began — told the Canadian Press in an interview that Wortman not only beat his live-in partner but he also had an illegal gun collection that she reported to the RCMP.
In 2013, Forbes said she witnessed Wortman being violent with his common-law partner and not for the first time. She claimed she witnessed him on top of her behind one of his properties beating and strangling her.
“On that incident, I called the RCMP and I told them what happened, and I said he has a bunch of illegal weapons, and I know because he showed them to us,” Forbes told CP.
Despite reports of domestic violence and illegal guns, nothing happened to Wortman.
His own father spoke to the Sun’s Joe Warmington and to Frank Magazine detailing how he had been beaten and threatened. Paul Wortman also called the Mounties to report violence and illegal guns and nothing was done.
It’s not like they wouldn’t have reason to look in on him beyond the reports. Wortman had a record for a vicious assault on a teenage boy that happened when he was very much an adult.
Hindsight can be 20/20 but, in this case, the RCMP was warned there were problems and they did not act.
In the end, 22 innocent people lost their lives because of that inaction.
Now, the RCMP and the government are trying to atone for their sins by using licensed, legal gun owners as the scapegoat and telling you this will make you safer.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...-sins-by-using-legal-gun-owners-as-scapegoats
Brought this here for one reason.
I understood that perhaps the RCMP could do nothing about Ms. Forbes report, as she was not a victim.
But his own father reported his gun cache after being beaten.
The RCMP did nothing.
But I'm responsible, me and every other Canadian gun owner.
Outrageous.
Brian Lilley
Published: May 13, 2020
Updated: May 13, 2020 5:06 PM EDT
In the time when Moses was leading the Israelites through the desert in search of the promised land there was a ritual for ridding the people of their sins — it was called a scapegoat.
Two goats would be chosen, one would be sacrificed on the altar, the other would have the sins of the people cast upon it.
“The goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat,” Leviticus 16:10.
It may seem like an odd ritual, but we keep it up to this day only now we blame people or groups of people for the failings of others. Like the attempt to blame legal and licensed gun owners for events such as the mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
We now know the shooter, Gabriel Wortman, never had a gun licence and none of his firearms were legally purchased. We also know two people, including his own father, had reported Wortman to the RCMP telling them about his violence and his illegal stash of guns.
Yet nothing ever happened.
In a news released earlier this week, the Mounties said Wortman left his home with four firearms — two handguns and two rifles.
“One of the guns has been traced to Canada. The remaining guns that were recovered are believed to have been obtained in the United States,” the RCMP said in their release.
Over the past 15 years, members of the RCMP have reported more than 640 guns issued to them as lost and more than 175 stolen.
Last year, an RCMP service pistol was stolen from the car of an off-duty member in downtown Halifax.
I’m willing to bet given how much Wortman wanted to have everything from the uniform to the car just like a real Mountie, that he found a way to acquire one of those lost or stolen guns and that is why the RCMP won’t tell us more about the guns he used.
Yet, licensed and legal gun owners are being used as the scapegoat to atone for the sins of the RCMP here. Just as they are the scapegoat for the RCMP not dealing with reports of Wortman beating his common-law spouse and having an illegal stash of guns.
Brenda Forbes — a former neighbour of Wortman in Portapique, NS, where the massacre began — told the Canadian Press in an interview that Wortman not only beat his live-in partner but he also had an illegal gun collection that she reported to the RCMP.
In 2013, Forbes said she witnessed Wortman being violent with his common-law partner and not for the first time. She claimed she witnessed him on top of her behind one of his properties beating and strangling her.
“On that incident, I called the RCMP and I told them what happened, and I said he has a bunch of illegal weapons, and I know because he showed them to us,” Forbes told CP.
Despite reports of domestic violence and illegal guns, nothing happened to Wortman.
His own father spoke to the Sun’s Joe Warmington and to Frank Magazine detailing how he had been beaten and threatened. Paul Wortman also called the Mounties to report violence and illegal guns and nothing was done.
It’s not like they wouldn’t have reason to look in on him beyond the reports. Wortman had a record for a vicious assault on a teenage boy that happened when he was very much an adult.
Hindsight can be 20/20 but, in this case, the RCMP was warned there were problems and they did not act.
In the end, 22 innocent people lost their lives because of that inaction.
Now, the RCMP and the government are trying to atone for their sins by using licensed, legal gun owners as the scapegoat and telling you this will make you safer.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colu...-sins-by-using-legal-gun-owners-as-scapegoats
Brought this here for one reason.
I understood that perhaps the RCMP could do nothing about Ms. Forbes report, as she was not a victim.
But his own father reported his gun cache after being beaten.
The RCMP did nothing.
But I'm responsible, me and every other Canadian gun owner.
Outrageous.
