You don't get to say "highdsight is 20/20" when something entirely foreseeable happens. If you store your bowling ball on the top shelf in your closet, and it rolls of and brains somebody when they open the door, you don't get to excuse yourself by saying "hindsight is 20/20", because that was an entirely foreseeable outcome. You don't say "hindsight is 20/20", you say "I really screwed up."
The police were given a credible report of domestic violence. They were given an eyewitness statement that he had illegal firearms. He already had a record with police and a known history of anger issues. Violence was entirely predictable. Obviously nobody could have expected an outcome this horrific, but it was entirely predictable that somebody-- most likely his female partner-- was going to get hurt or killed. They were given all the information they needed, and they did nothing.
This wasn't a failure of gun control laws, this was a failure of policing. Period. Any attempt to deflect blame from the RCMP to legal gun owners is dishonest and ridiculous.
At this point we are like one of those Japanese houses with oiled-paper walls. You can put up a thicker door, you can put a deadbolt on the door, a bar on the door, a security plate on the door, but continuing to focus your efforts on the door does nothing further to make the paper house more secure.
If the police won't even listen to an eyewitness claim that he had illegal firearms, what good does any of this do? Laws only work if the police will bother to enforce them.
This was a failure of policing.
-k
Exactly what level of police state are you comfortable with? I, for one, don't want officers arresting, searching, or interrogating people bases on 'information'.
Like I said, hindsight is 20/20. We can learn from this, but we can't go back. Accusing one of the world's most professional police force of incompetence over human failures is something.
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