First, from SacBee.com:
A man whose family said he suffered from psychosis and depression fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighborhood, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 others in an attack that has shaken the confidence of many in the normally safe city.
Authorities on Monday evening identified the suspect as Faisal Hussain, 29, of Toronto, who died in an exchange of gunfire with police. It was not immediately clear whether he killed himself or was killed by police.
Update: he did in fact kill himself.
A statement from the family of Hussain said their son had severe mental health challenges, having struggled with psychosis and depression. They said medications did not help him and the interventions of professionals were unsuccessful.
There you go. The poor boy was addled. In today’s world that explains and excuses anything according to Leftists. Particularly regarding police encounters with mentally embattled suspects. Police must be “considerate” and “cautious.”
Uh, no. In the real world where law enforcement operates, that simply means the mentally unbalanced can have no concept of reality and, because no one knows what’s percolating around in the brain housing group of the mentally challenged, I and other law enforcement personnel were and are more likely to consider force against them if necessary than those otherwise based in at least a semblance of reality. Law enforcement doesn’t possess the ability to examine the brain of a suspect or his/her rationale for committing various acts in retrospect.
Police Chief Mark Saunders earlier said he would not speculate on a motive but did not rule out terrorism.
Trust me, after that quote the police chief received one very fucking terse phone call from the mayor for daring to make such a statement.
Toronto’s mayor says the only point at issue is that of firearms. From CNN.com:
After deadly shooting, Toronto wants to ban handgun sales in the city
by Madison Park
Days after a shooting rampage in Toronto killed two people, its city council voted overwhelmingly to urge its federal government to ban the sale of handguns in the city.
The Toronto City Council voted 41-4 on Tuesday to push the Canadian government to ban the sale of handguns and also for the provincial government to ban handgun ammunition sales within the city.
Because firearms laws are so terribly lax in Canada. Right. Lax like in Britain or Chicago or DC or Baltimore or San Francisco or any other Leftist hellhole/shithole you can conjure with skyrocketing crime rates.
There’s just one problem. The killer was a Muslim. Let’s listen to Paul Watson provide some actual facts and background.
Then there was this from the AUDailyTelegraph.com:
ISIS claims responsibility for Toronto mass shooting
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the mass shooting in Toronto that left two people dead — including a 10-year-old girl — and 13 injured.
Then this little tidbit at the bottom of the article:
Though mass shootings are rare in Canada’s largest city, Toronto police had deployed dozens of additional officers over the weekend to deal with a recent rise in gun violence. The city has seen 23 gun homicides so far this year, compared to 16 fatal shootings in the first half of 2017.
But wait. I thought any place in Canada was a LUP, a Leftist Unsullied Paradise, completely unsubject to the terrible abrogations and rotten influences of the evil neighbor to its south.
Lesson learned?
Of course not.
BZ
Yes homicide by guns is increasing alarmingly in Toronto, but compare the stats to a US city of similar size (2.7 million). I would be surprised if you could find one with a rate that was less than five times as high.
The fact that ISIS claimed responsibility matters not a jot to me. It furthers their cause to claim responsibility for any shooting.
If you read about his background you will see he was clearly “troubled”. His sister was killed in a car accident, his brother is in a vegetative state because of a drug overdose.
As for the knee jerk reaction of more restriction on guns. That is the usual response for a place that doesn’t hold the view that the possession of guns is a necessary state if there is to be “freedom”.
The mass shooting (one dead, excluding the shooter and one injured) made the news because it is so rare. Had the event happened in, say, Kentucky, I wonder if it would have made the top five items on BBC? I suspect not.
Of course it wouldn’t.
My point is that the inviolate atmosphere of Toronto has had its feathers ruffled.
Welcome to the fucking Real World, assholes.
Let the bodies hit the floor.
BZ
Mass shootings are “the real world”? Well might be in the US where there are so many guns….but way lower in other countries where there are fewer guns.
I guess that any city that has a relatively low crime rate would have its feathers ruffled by a mass shooting. In many US cities, though, it would be just another day at the office.
Is interesting that you think Britain is a “leftist hellhole/shithole” with a skyrocketing crime rate. First, there is a right wing government (for now at least) and second the crime rate is not skyrocketing. Third, crime rate still way lower than the US. Don’t believe everything you read on the online Daily Wail.
consider force against them if necessary than those otherwise based in at least a semblance of reality.
As always, people in the thick of it where decisions and actions occur in fractions of seconds get judged by those with all the time in the world to pour over the details. Worse, those with an agenda can use only the portion of the facts that support their agenda.
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No idea how that ties into the story of the Toronto shooting on the Danforth.