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Thirty years ago Friday, Marc Lepine used a rifle to massacre 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Another 10 women were wounded.

It was an egregious act of terror aimed directly at women. Specifically, feminists. We know this, because the terrorist himself said so in a suicide note he left behind.

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Lepine was, perhaps, Canada’s first Incel terrorist.

It was also a watershed moment where feminism and pacifism converged and fuelled a new gun control movement driven by the passions of aggrieved and the political savvy of the feminist movement. It became a powerful political lobby that has driven change in Canada’s gun laws ever since.

Some of those changes have probably been for the good. Most of those changes have been pointless. Some of them have been harmful. We may argue about which was which, but we must all recognize one fact.

None of the gun control measures enacted since Lepine’s 1989 massacre have reduced gun violence in Canada.