Baghdad — Police say a teenager shot dead at the Baghdad funeral for another teen was apparently targeted by his killers.
The 18-year-old was gunned down at a mosque in the city’s northwest end this afternoon, sparking panic among 300 mourners in the building.
The funeral was for a 17-year-old boy who was slain by gunfire last week.
Not so funny. I know.
we should reward success . . if the $2B for the gun registry has been this successful, imagine how much security we could have if we “invested” $4billion in the long gun registry
Sounds like Toronto
I’m assuming you guys know it is Toronto right? It was a Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Sounds like Surrey
Big deal- the exact same thing just happened here in Toronto! (No word yet if the weapons used were ‘registered’ or not.)
I already saw the report on that. I knew it was in Toronto and wasn’t surprised, as I have actually posted on the matter of the continuous gun-related violence and slayings in the Big Smoke (does the smoke now come from spent gunpowder?).
And I get it– it sounds like something from Iraq, a point I also made on my site.
Nope- nothing funny about that. Especially the fact it’s going to happen again, since “Liberals” the nation over don’t understand the causes of it and therefore cannot figure out how to solve the problem. Social programs will NOT do a thing. Only a serious crackdown on the actual perps and the removal of them from society, be it to prison or via deportation if they’re not citizens, will do. Also, it won’t be sufficient to simply go around taking away guns and letting the carriers go. They’ll get another gun just like that.
Gun registry? It only oppresses sport hunters who use long guns. It doesn’t prevent or stop street punks from blowing people away with handguns.
I say, let people keep guns at home so intruders will be terrified of the prospect of conducting a home invasion only to be confronted by an angry homeowner with a shotgun and that sort of thing.
And if the “Liberals” are going to let baddies run around shooting people, then at least allow the good guys to carry a piece, too, to deter the scum from pulling one on them.
In response to Canadian Sentinel, please remember that the honourable Allan Rock stated that “firearms will not be used in the protection of human life in Canada”. A truly ignorant statement from a truly ignorant elected official.
People who commit crimes need to be nurtured while law abiding hunters need to be inconvenienced. Its the Liberal way.
It is unfortunate that this has happened to this young man, but the timing couldn’t be better. If the people involved in this are going to excalate the violence regardless of what happens lets hope that they do it soon and during an election campaign. Provided of course that they do not upset religious or ethnic groups during that time.
I suspect a poll properly worded would bring about the number of close to 100% of people who do not want gun violence over the holiday season.
Yes but if we only spent $4 billion on the gun registry this would not have happened. At least that’s what the LLL would say.
Actually, that’s very funny. I’m stealing it.
“Canadians don’t want gunfire in their Church parking lots”.
Since I have long since delegated all thinking to the all knowing Liberal gurus, I expect this new and important message to implanted into my dense Ontario skull by the Liberal Media Mind Probe, right after they are sure I have assimilated the “Canadians don’t want a Christmas election” missive.
For real, when I read the post, I thought that the report I heard on the CBC today was completely misinterpreted.
George W. Bush will get blamed for both…
Hasn’t he been already?
Recall the fuss about the US “allowing” illegal guns into Canada….
I think that TO is a good place to have this kind of stuff. Lets try and keep it there. Its their just reward for electing and continually voting for the liberanos. And the gun registry was brought in for the same people.
Ya’ll are getting what you deserve.
Hey, Torontonians, just remember at election time
“A vote for liberanos is a vote for violence”
Horny Toad
I’m just hypothesizing but I would be willing to bet that the majority of firearms that are smuggled into Canada are coming in on sea containers through the ports. (Its easier to smuggle in bulk and not get caught this way. Most are probably coming in through the West Coast, smuggled in by organized crime syndicates (Triads, et al.)).
Even if the majority of weapons ARE coming from the US, is Canadian Border Security not the responsibility of the Canada Border Services Agency? (And hence the Federal Government?)
And an other note, as some other readers have already mentioned, I’ll wager that the firearm used in this attack was either:
A) Not registered.
B) Stolen.
C) All of the above?
Good to see the gun registry is helping to prevent “gun related crimes”…
Speaking of quagmire…
403-3.
The left can shut up now.
Did the assailant fire into the casket? Did the casket return fire? Are there bullet holes in the church? Was anybody hurt?
Out of idle curiosity- where does a welfare teenager get the money to buy a stolen/imported handgun? (Is it possible that they are RENTING them?)
Just yesterday, a female police officer was shot dead while responding to an armed robbery in Bradford. Her partner was badly wounded.
Big manhunt underway.
It is interesting to note that, as is the norm in the UK, neither police constable was armed.
It will be interesting to find out the ethnicity of the killers.
The Republicans simply don’t care about this war. They don’t care if we win or lose. They don’t want the facts about how things are really going in Toronto because they simply don’t care.
If the Republicans did care about our citizens, they would want to know if we had enough police to fight the war. If they cared, they’d make sure our police actually had the body armor they needed. And if they cared about the police, they would end a war once it’s concluded we’ve lost. Only someone who cared more about his ego than our police or our nation would continue a war once we’ve realized it’s a no-win situation.
I am not sure how this debate got turned to gun registries. I think what is important here is the location, a mosque. The U.S. military stays clear of mosques because the terrorists consider them holy ground (all the time using them as hideouts). Yet it is okay for Iraqis to shoot themselves in mosques.
It wasn’t a mosque–it was a Seventh Day Adventist church.
The gun used was a semi-automatic hand gun. Apparently it is the norm for armed punks to attend the funeral of their fellow scum–this according to Bill Caroll on Global News last night. Yet the Mayor and Police Chief were so startled by this occurance and still focused on their ‘gangs and guns’ program. And the Mayor had the cajones to state that the program is working! Guess that means more honest citizens have had to give up their guns.
I thought this happened in West Toronto
Its Canada folks..Edmonton has 33 murders to date with guns, knives, bats, broken bottles..anything that can be used to kill somebody.What happened in T.O. was bad but not surprising..stay tuned more to come from every province in this country..oh yea and theres a serial killer in northen Alberta killing hookers too and to date i think the body count on that is at 16.
Islamist murderous terrorists bring death to the dead and the living; the murderers in Toronto bring death to the dead and the living, also. The Cult of Death is universal. Down with the Cult of Death. >>>
Two bomb attacks claim at least 28 Iraqi lives
Ireland Online – 1 hour ago
A suicide attacker killed at least 15 people and wounded 20 more in a Shiite funeral procession today north of Baghdad, while a car bomb exploded near a market just outside the capital killing 13 people and wounding 21, police said. …
via googlenews
Simple stevie, a reality hick for all seasons and every subject.
The bleat from the outraged race baiters here in Toronto is.. “Why did’nt the police attend the funeral ?”
Of course the black Jamaican community hates the racist pigs and NEVER aids in actually identifying any of these murderous little punks.
So the police should pat down some of the little darlings on their way in to “represent”.
All the while hearing mutterings of “cracker”, “pig”,”murderer” by these fine upstanding citizens.
Last night one of the poor underclass took a bullet for declining to hand over a cigarette when asked.
So the only solution (if you’re a liberal asshat) is…
Lets open the flood gates of immigration to more of them ,..that should help.
I think this might be a new low even for Toronto’s mayor. He was so shocked he couldn’t say much of anything and even the chief seemed shaken. They’re not dealing with normal people here. And where the f/k are the parents? Don’t they have any control over their kids.It’s a horrible area, subsidized heavily by Ontario taxpayers. Toronto’s ghettoes.
At least they are killing one another.
“At least they are killing one another.”
Now, there’s a project I could get behind. I have a free box of ammo for each hit-dude who off’s a competitor, and gift certificate to McDonalds.
Even more interesting than the news of the kid getting whacked while attending a funeral- for another one who was probably hit by the same people- is the statement by the pastor of that church, who claims that one of these teenagers has impregnated over a dozen girls in that school, (apparently this establishes your ‘street creds’. And don’t tell me that Social Services is not aware of what is going on, here!
the wonderful thing is that we have a mayor and a chief of police who don’t believe in policing or in locking up criminals. it seems taht the public would truly support a drastic revision of sentencing in the country. I know we’d get crucified in the media, but I think that everyone is so fed up that we could overwhelm that by promising to triple (at least) all sentences, follow a broken windows approach to policing and prosecutions, and focus the resources from the gun registry on to policing.
Since the feds do the policing in most of the country, and there is no constitutional limits on fed authority any more, it would seem that fed mandates and funding in terms of policing and courts would be effective, popular, and a vastly better idea than subsidised day care.
The only thing that keeps toronto safe is that the killings mostly happen in our cites (no accents… sorry). Toronto needs a mayor and a police chief who will police all of toronto and secure the neighbourhoods of our most vulnerable citizens. We don’t need any more basketball leagues, we need the police to be a permanent presence in these communities, we need housing authority to install cameras to work together with polices, and we need to ensure that the community helps catch these b&&&&rds. Ensuring that they’re caught and sent away for good (along with all of their associates) would likely do wonders for getting help from witnesses.
Tories would do well to start emphasizing their repeated calls for mandatory minimums. I’m not sure about elsewhere, but in Ontario, at one time, if you were 16, you could move out of your house an welfare would set you up in your own digs if you couldn’t cope with your parents. Folks in TO who elected David Miller can’t wait to get another crack at him. And nothing will change on the streets until perps (sorry – too much Law & Order) are sent away for a very long time. Readers Digest had a piece a few years ago on how Canada’s justice system has been tweaked slightly over the years since 72-79 when they did away with stiffer sentences in return for rehab and big hugs all round. And since most of these killers are kids, well, there’s always the New Young Offenders Act that won’t do much anyway.
And all the while,when the Liebrals are badmouthing gun owners and demonizing the United States, I don’t suppose most Cdns realize that the violent crime rate in Canada is actually DOUBLE the violent crime in the USA. The Canadian rate is over 900 per 100,000 and the USA rate is close to 500 per 100,000. And why should the Liebral party use racial profiling to select the immigrants most likely to vote for them, and then tell the police that they can’t use racial profiling to fight the criminals the Liebrals brought here in the first place?
I recall readng in a newspaper about a year ago that since the Canadian Charter became law, the successful conviction rate for homicides is about 26%. I suppose the word’s out: in Canada, chances are slim that you’ll do time for murder..
RockyT:
“The Canadian rate is over 900 per 100,000 and the USA rate is close to 500 per 100,000”
Can you (or anybody reading this) site a source for these figures? I’d love to be able to quote source when talking to head-in-ass liberals who think we’re some sort of utopian non-violent paradise in Canada, & the US is a knuckledragging, violence-ridden purgatory.