The Liberal party in Canada has spent $1.5 billion (with a B) of taxpayer money for a gun registry. Four Mounties were killed recently by man who, despite having been "prohibited from owning guns since 2000" and the massive boondoggle gun registry that still is not implemented, had three guns in his possession when he killed the officers as this story states without even mentioning the registry. Don't expect a Canadian national debate on this. The liberal media will nitpick it to death.

Police would not say whether the Heckler & Koch was set up to fire in a fully automatic, or rapid-fire mode.

Eventually, as it always does with the Canadian liberal media, it will be the Mounties' fault for not having been A) sufficiently trained, and/or B) insensitive to the situation. Mostly though, it is C) America's fault.

UPDATE March 23rd: You knew it was coming. Headline from Globe & Mail: "Top Mountie defends deadly raid on Roszko." Subhead: "Police made no mistakes, Zaccardelli says"

Facing questions at a Parliament Hill news conference yesterday as to the lack of supervision of the four rookie officers who died during the March 3 operation, RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said senior officers were involved in planning the failed raid.

[bolding mine] And, THAT, is how the Left switches the focus to suit their agenda. The issue is not how a convicted felon and a $1.5 Billion gun registry failed to prevent the shootout with police. It's what the police did wrong. Read the article. Now the officers are "rookies." It was a "failed raid." and "the raid could have been better handled."

But the real kicker??? "Mr. Roszko's former lawyer and Tory MP Rob Merrifield, who represents the Alberta riding of Yellowhead, questioned Commissioner Zaccardelli's strong defence of his team." Mr. Roszko was the drug dealer who killed the four Mounties.

By the time it is finished, the drug dealer's family will probably be able to sue the dead officers' estates, the useless Liberal MPs who hate all police will call for the removal of Zaccardelli and they will impose their own Leftwing, touchy feely, politically correct, department head, pat themselves on the back, ignore the fact that they slandered everyone including four dead men who gave their lives doing a job they believed in, and the whole issue will be one of gigantic opportunism, aided and abetted by a Leftwing media who have successfully made Canada the King of the Third World in less than 35 years. It's enough to make you glad that the U.S. is not obligated to protect Canada in case of nuclear war.