Article content Next Sept.13, 15 years will have passed since a young man from Laval carried out a mass shooting at Dawson College with a semi-automatic assault weapon and a handgun. In mere minutes, he shot 20 victims, one of whom was Anastasia De Sousa, my daughter. Anastasia was shot 12 times at close range. She died of her injuries. She was 18. The gun lobby argues the “problem” of gun violence does not concern legal gun owners but rather “criminals” or “gangs” with illegal guns. This is demonstrably false. While half of gun homicides are related to gangs, the other half are not. Most mass shooters are legal gun owners, including the Dawson gunman. In fact, Kimveer Gill was a member of the same gun club where professor Valery Fabrikant trained before murdering four of his colleagues at Concordia University in 1992.