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Just saw this as I looked at the Canadian bank robbery that left 6 Canadian police officers wounded....
The gunman who would kill 22 people across Nova Scotia in a mass shooting had controlled and abused women around him for years, including his longtime partner and others who were in vulnerable situations.
The public inquiry into the mass shooting is examining what happened on April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman destroyed several homes and killed neighbours and strangers across the province — including a pregnant woman — while driving a mock police car.
Hmmmmm.......22 killed.....seems to me that is the exact same number as were murdered in Uvalde, Texas........this gunman was also known to friends and family as a nut......
A little more on Canadian gun control...
It’s the daily tally of individual violent crimes involving firearms, especially handguns. And the Liberals have done little to stem the growing number of these less-newsworthy crimes.
A Statistics Canada report released last week says that, since 2009, the per capita rate of firearms being pointed at someone in the commission of a crime has nearly tripled, and the rate at which guns are fired with intent to kill or wound is up fivefold.
In rural areas, there were notable spikes in firearms-related crimes in 2019 and 2020, mostly involving long guns. But it’s in cities and suburbs where crime is most likely to involve a firearm – usually an easy-to-conceal handgun. Statscan says 63 per cent of firearm-related violent crimes in urban areas involved handguns in 2020.
These trends are starkly reflected in Canada’s largest city, whose rate of gun crime is about average for the country (and lower than Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Calgary). The Toronto Police Service reported this month that 286 people have been killed in shootings, and 1,185 people have been injured, since 2015.
Which Canadian gun control law kept the Nova Scotia shooter from walking into a school, church, theater, or mall? He killed 22 people, but had he entered a school, what would have stopped him?
The gunman who would kill 22 people across Nova Scotia in a mass shooting had controlled and abused women around him for years, including his longtime partner and others who were in vulnerable situations.
The public inquiry into the mass shooting is examining what happened on April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman destroyed several homes and killed neighbours and strangers across the province — including a pregnant woman — while driving a mock police car.
Hmmmmm.......22 killed.....seems to me that is the exact same number as were murdered in Uvalde, Texas........this gunman was also known to friends and family as a nut......
A little more on Canadian gun control...
It’s the daily tally of individual violent crimes involving firearms, especially handguns. And the Liberals have done little to stem the growing number of these less-newsworthy crimes.
A Statistics Canada report released last week says that, since 2009, the per capita rate of firearms being pointed at someone in the commission of a crime has nearly tripled, and the rate at which guns are fired with intent to kill or wound is up fivefold.
In rural areas, there were notable spikes in firearms-related crimes in 2019 and 2020, mostly involving long guns. But it’s in cities and suburbs where crime is most likely to involve a firearm – usually an easy-to-conceal handgun. Statscan says 63 per cent of firearm-related violent crimes in urban areas involved handguns in 2020.
These trends are starkly reflected in Canada’s largest city, whose rate of gun crime is about average for the country (and lower than Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Calgary). The Toronto Police Service reported this month that 286 people have been killed in shootings, and 1,185 people have been injured, since 2015.
Globe editorial: Canada has a real gun violence problem, but it’s (mostly) not the one the Liberals want to talk about
The biggest and most persistent gun-violence problem in Canada is not mass shootings – it’s the daily tally of individual violent crimes involving firearms, especially handguns
www.theglobeandmail.com
Which Canadian gun control law kept the Nova Scotia shooter from walking into a school, church, theater, or mall? He killed 22 people, but had he entered a school, what would have stopped him?