Alexa Conradi, head honcho at the Quebec Women’s Federation has called for the preservation of the gun registry.  What’s interesting about this call is that to support it, Conradi chose to invoke the tragedy of the 1989 shootings at École polytechnique.  14 women were killed when an insane madman who’s name should oft not be repeated, took a rifle into the school and murdered them in cold blood.  Families of the victims in this shooting had a key role in creating the gun registry and have publicly decried the possibility of it being dismantled.

I say that the choice to invoke this tragedy is interesting because I don’t see how it’s really connected to the need for a gun registry.  In fact, it’s like fear mongering to push a gun control agenda and using fear and women as pawns to further that aim.  Frankly, it’s not as interesting as it is disgusting.  In her speech, Conradi gave no credible reason to believe that a gun registry would have prevented the 1989 shooting or even mitigated the harm done by the shooter.  Conradi gave no honest indication as to how the gun registry would have prevented the shooter from taking a gun to the school or how the victims would have been protected by a registration number attached to a rifle, assuming that the rifle would have been legally obtained.

Alexa Conradi is either horribly misled to believe that a gun registry is some how effective in disabling the firing mechanism of a rifle or she is using women and fear to drive a gun control agenda.  If the latter is true, she should be ousted from her organization and chastized by women across Canada for abusing her role as head of the Quebec Women’s Federation.  Either that or she can concisely and clearly explain how a gun registry would have protected shooting victims in 1989 and why she chose to invoke that painful memory.