Orlando couldn’t happen as easily here

Here, unlike down there, we do not make it easy for Islamic extremists, or haters, or the mentally ill, to get guns.

In Canada, like in the U.S., we have homicidal Islamic extremists. We have sadistic hate criminals. We have people who are mentally ill and violent. We sadly have all that, just like in the States. But here, unlike there, we don’t make it easy for any of those individuals to get guns. And that is the main reason why Orlando couldn’t so easily happen here. And hasn’t.Photograph courtesy of YouTube

Opinion

BY WARREN KINSELLA

June 20, 2016

TORONTO—Could Orlando have happened here? Well, we’ve got our share of Islamic terrorists here, of course: the attack on Parliament Hill, and several other attacks in the past decade, have made that clear enough. We’ve had no shortage of hate crimes, too: l’Ecole Polytechnique was indisput...

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