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oliver clotheshoffe
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| | Subject: Another School Shooting (Toronto)(Almost) Thu May 26, 2022 8:06 pm | |
| Toronto police kill man carrying gun near schools TORONTO, May 26 (Reuters) - Toronto police shot and killed a man who was walking down a street carrying a gun in a city neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, an incident that prompted five nearby schools to be placed under precautionary lockdowns, city officials said. Officers responding to a report of an armed man in the area fired after the gunman confronted them, Toronto Police Chief James Ramer said at a media briefing. He declined to give further details, citing an ongoing investigation. Earlier on Twitter, Toronto police said officers had fired and the suspect, described as a male in his late teens or early 20s, was injured. The scene where the man was shot by Toronto police is about 130 meters (426 ft) from the William G Davis Junior Public School, which was the last of the five schools to emerge from a lockdown. All the school lockdowns were lifted after a couple hours, according to the Toronto District School Board. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/toronto-police-shoot-suspect-carrying-gun-nearby-school-2022-05-26/ |
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| 5-26-2022
How Canada, Australia, UK changed laws after mass shootings.
(Reuters) -
A shooting at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers has revived a push for new gun safety laws in the United States, which has more firearms than people and more permissive gun laws than many other high-income countries.
Over 200 mass shootings have been reported in the United States in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group.
More than 45,000 people died from gun-related injuries, including suicides, in the United States in 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Stricter gun laws have been introduced in the U.S. Congress after past mass shootings, but they have been defeated by Republicans, independents and some moderate Democrats.
Here's how other nations have reacted after similar shootings.
CANADA
After the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre, in which 14 women engineering students were killed in their Montreal classroom, new legislation required safety courses, background checks and increased penalties for some gun crimes.
In 2020, shortly after a gunman shot and killed 13 people in Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canada banned more than 1,500 models of "assault-style" firearms and components, and set limits on how destructive bullets could be.
Canada's rate of firearm homicides
is 0.5 per 100,000 people,
versus
the United States' rate of 4.12.
AUSTRALIA
After a gunman killed 35 people at a cafe and tourist site in 1996, Australia banned all semi-automatic rifles and all semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns. Thousands of unlicensed firearms were surrendered under a gun amnesty program, and licensed gun owners required to take a safety course.
The chances of being murdered by a gun in Australia plunged to 0.15 per 100,000 people in 2014 from 0.54 per 100,000 people in 1996,
___a decline of 72 percent,
a Reuters analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed.
UNITED KINGDOM A gunman killed 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, prompting a public campaign that led to Britain adopting some of the strictest gun controls in the world. Within two years, new laws effectively banned civilians from owning handguns.
The United Kingdom's rate of gun homicides is
0.04 per 100,000 people, the IHME calculates.
NEW ZEALAND
After the Christchurch mosques shooting that killed 50 people in March 2019, New Zealand's prime minister banned the sale of assault weapons within days. Parliament later voted to bar the circulation and use of most semi-automatic firearms, parts that convert firearms into semi-automatic firearms, magazines over a certain capacity, and some shotguns.
Firearm-related murders were rare in New Zealand and remain so;
the country had 12 in 2018 and 11 in 2021.
Reuters UK
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| | | | oliver clotheshoffe
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| How Canada, Australia, UK turned into dictatorships and locked everyone inside their homes after taking away guns...
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| | | | oliver clotheshoffe
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| | Subject: Re: Another School Shooting (Toronto)(Almost) Fri May 27, 2022 8:42 am | |
| – 1929, the Soviet Union established gun laws including confiscation: 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents exterminated. – 1911, Turkey. Governmental restrictions for private gun ownership: 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians blamed by the government for the war, exterminated, – 1938, Germany government banned communists, Jews and other “undesirables,” from gun ownership. 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews and others exterminated. READ THAT AGAIN … “undesirables”? – 1935. China established gun control: 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, rounded up and exterminated. – 1964. Guatemala required expensive, hard-to-obtain permits for carrying firearms: 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, rounded up and exterminated. – 1970. Uganda established gun control: 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, murdered on the spot. – 1956. Cambodia, ruler Khmer Rouge removed all firearms from private ownership, and stockpiled the regime:1975 to 1977; 1.5 - 3 million Cambodians, including a half-million members of ethnic minority groups, were slaughtered. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property, and gun control laws adversely affect only the law abiding citizens. With guns, we are “citizens”; without them, we are “subjects.” https://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/opinion/dont-repeat-the-same-mistakes/article_cb659778-f6d6-11ea-a1a8-1bf93831f391.html |
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