Today as some of the biggest and most memorable shootings were brought up in class I remembered that not even a week ago I heard about a shooting in Ottawa, Canada and when I got home I decided to look into it. As I understood it, on October 23rd Canada's national parliament was attacked by a gunman, leading to the death of a solider. And on Thursday the prime minister Stephen Harper led a tribute to the soldier as well as the official who took charge and shoot down the gunman. Many leaders including the former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee have used this sad event as examples in criticizing Obama's gun control plans. Huckabee talked about how a what could have been a mass murder was stopped by a guy who had a gun on him. Besides the fact some people believe that gun control is a violations of their right but they also believe that in times such as the Ottawa incident guns have been proven to prevent mass shootings and save the lives of hundreds of people.
Thanks for putting this up I didn't know anything about this Ottawa incident. It's something that this is a case that promotes anti gun control rather than increased gun control.
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