An Open Door Policy

The Club de Tir Ville St. Pierre is the place where notorious Montreal mass murderer, Valery Fabrikant, took a course in handguns before killing four people at Concordia University in 1992 with a Smith and Wesson .38 special. He took the course in the fall of 1991.

And now it is the place where media reports suggest Dawson College killer Kimveer Gill went to train to get the firearms permit that allowed him to buy the weapons he used this week to kill one person and injure others.

Yesterday, when a reporter walked into the basement club asking questions, owner Marco Pendenza was firm.

"Put your pad away, we have no comment," Pendenza said before asking a reporter to leave. "What part of no comment do you not understand?"

There are nine such clubs in the Greater Montreal region, all offering a variety of gun related services including the training courses that are obligatory under Canadian law before an individual can get a licence to buy a gun.

Continue to hold firm, Mr. Pendenza.

That Canadian law requires preconditions is no doing of yours. And that you should be villified and tarred with the brush of culpability by those wishing to establish guilt by association is further proof that, for "authorized journalists," agenda is more important than truth.