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August 11, 2018

Two police officers among four fatally shot in Canada


Sat, Aug 11, 2018








"It was scary," said Marlene Weaver, who was in bed on Friday morning when she heard shots.

"It takes you back to the shooting in Moncton." 


Friday´s shooting occurred three weeks after a gunman walked down a busy Toronto street, killing two people and wounding 13 before killing himself.


"We´ll see where this investigation leads in terms of what exactly happened, who did it, what was the motivation for doing it and the instruments of destruction that were used," he said.


"Gun laws in Canada are stricter than in the United States but a proliferation of weapons has led to an increase in gun-related crimes in recent years. New Brunswick had three homicide shootings in the entire year of 2016, according to Statistics Canada."Awful news coming out of Fredericton," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter.







"You hear a lot about gun violence in the United States," he said, "but this morning when I heard those noises, what´s starting to sink in is that those noises were people losing their lives. To have it happen so close to us is shocking. Now we´re becoming the story that nobody wants to hear." 



"This sort of thing never happens here," Hill said.

"It´s happening."


"Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?" Toronto Mayor John Tory said.



"It´s possible that we could work with the provinces and territories and allow them the authority to designate certain municipalities as places where guns could not be purchased or possessed," Blair told Reuters.


For the United States, the University of Washington´s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reported 3.85 deaths per 100,000 that year.



