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
