In the wake of Sunday’s shooting rampage in downtown Toronto, a majority of that Canadian city’s elected officials are pushing for a federal government ban on the sale of handguns in the city, according to CNN. Two people were killed, and more than a dozen others were injured. News coverage alluded to “gun violence” and […]
No Background Check: Seven Dead in School Knife Attack in China
British media is reporting that at least seven students have been killed and between 12 and 19 more were wounded in a knife attack at a secondary school in Shaanxi Province in China, perhaps underscoring something said earlier in the week by the head of a national gun rights organization after the rental van rampage […]
Toronto Mass Killing Coverage Subsiding: No Guns Involved
News coverage of Monday’s deadly Toronto sidewalk rampage seems to be subsiding, raising suspicions among some in the firearms community that the reason is because a gun wasn’t involved in the murders of ten pedestrians with a rental van as the weapon of choice. The dual standard of public angst was not lost on the […]
Toronto v. Nashville Shows Dual Standard of Anti-gun Left
What is the difference between ten people killed in Toronto, allegedly by a nut behind the wheel of a van and four people killed in Nashville, allegedly by a disturbed man wielding a semi-auto rifle? For those on the political left, the Toronto victims fell to a deranged individual, while in Nashville, the four Waffle […]
Toronto Mass ‘Lethal Killing Machine’ Was A What?
Three people are dead and a suspect is in custody in Toronto, and a columnist for the Toronto Sun has unleashed a tirade calling the weapon of choice a “lethal killing machine,” but to the potential surprise of gun rights activists, he’s not talking about a firearm. The apparent murder weapon in Thursday’s attack was […]
