In an extraordinary bad-timed and poorly thought out move, Kevin O’Leary posted a video of him shooting at a gun range during the funerals for the men killed in the Quebec mosque shootings.
The video was originally posted on YouTube last March and filmed in Miami but O’Leary or some, most likely now in trouble, social media manager decided to repost them on social media today. At the same time the videos went up, in Quebec City, the six men who were killed when Alexandre Bissonnette allegedly fired into a crowd praying in Centre Culturel Islamique Québec were laid to rest.
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“Still have my shooting chops from my time as a military cadet at Stanstead College,” read the now-deleted tweet, O’Leary also posted the video on Facebook.
The video shows O’Leary shooting a handgun, two fully automatic firearms and one bolt-action long distance rifle.
Ralph Goodale, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, when asked about the posts, called it “obviously, obviously crass, insensitive and exceedingly dumb.” The Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate was, obviously, called out on social media for the video’s timing.
After being thoroughly dragged online O’Leary pulled the video off his accounts and his representatives said, in a statement, they “apologize for the mistake” and “didn’t mean to offend.”
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