Turns Out Canada Still Has Shootings Despite Gun-Grabbing

Canadian gun-control laws, which included a gun “buy back” program, failed to prevent shootings in Toronto that occurred on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Three people were killed and others wounded in at least three shooting incidents in the Toronto area, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). The shootings took place even though Canada passed legislation known as C-21 that banned modern semiautomatic firearms and implemented a “freeze” on handguns, including a plan to launch an Australian-style “buy back” of the banned rifles and shotguns.

“It is alleged that there was an exchange of gunfire between the accused and an unknown suspect. After discharging his firearm, the accused stole a vehicle from a rideshare driver that had customers on board,” Toronto police said in a release about a Sunday shootout that left multiple people wounded. “While fleeing the scene, the accused struck pedestrians and vehicles. Two victims were transported to hospital with gunshot wounds, one victim was struck by the vehicle and they were transported to hospital.”

Late Friday, one person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting in North York, the CBC reported. First responders pronounced Abdihamiim Aden, a 22-year-old from Toronto, dead on the scene, while the two wounded individuals were taken to the hospital to have “serious” injuries treated.

In March, Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal of gun owners to comply with the ban.