Bill C-21 could cause death instead of saving lives.

In this text, I will not name the organization to which I am working as I speak for myself. This is my opinion, maybe not my organisation’s…

I am a policeman. I get to go on emergency calls with life threatening situations.

Sometimes it is a person going through a very tough moment of her life that is threatening to take her own life or someone else’s …

Sometimes it is a person that is suffering from domestic violence who life may be in immediate danger…

Sometimes it’s a person that has problem with the consumption of drugs that is in a psychosis that might be an immediate danger to herself or others…

Sometimes I’m face to face with a burglar that just broke into a house that might be armed and dangerous…

Sometimes in a routine road interception, l’m face with a car thief or a dangerous criminal…

And many many other high risk situations.

At first, when I became a policeman, I didn’t have my RPAL. It wasn’t needed at the time. So I decided to get my certification and purchase myself the same handgun as I have on duty.

Some may ask why get a handgun when I get to train and have requalifications at my job right? Well, what would you say if I told you we only have 1 requalification every year. Nothing else. In my humble opinion, this is far from being nearly enough. When your life or some else’s rely on you, you MUST be well trained. That’s the difference between a saved life or not.

My plan was clear, I wanted to buy a handgun with my own money and use my own free time for my own benefit but also for my organization’s benefit too. I wanted to go to the range and train. I wanted to train so regardless of the danger and stress to which I would be confronted, I would never hesitate or make a mistake while drawing my firearm the day I might need to draw it when I’d be on duty to save my life, my partner’s life or a potential victim’s life.

I know for a fact that I am not the only policeman the brought a handgun for that same purpose!

Not only this bill targets innocent vetted law abiding citizens, Not only this bill does NOT target illegal firearms or illegal firearm owners,

Even policeman can’t purchase personal handguns anymore.

This bill might also be the difference in an intervention where a policeman could’ve been better trained and saved a life…

But that, we’ll never know. How could we?