The first people who should be unarmed are police, and Trudeau's security peeps.
Be a lot less shooting if they had their guns taken away. Give each 4 tennis balls, if someone gets unruly, they can throw the tennis balls at them.
Leave the regular citizens armed.
Bought some Power Fist brand tools yesterday at Princess Auto, including 3 torque wrenches. They may not be great, but hopefully good enough to get me close. I grabbed 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" drive. Even if they are off a bit, should still be closer than me pulling on a wrench 'until it feels...