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That seems like he was not keen on the office "banter".
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tter_share-top
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There are always definitional issues with that kind of question, but the Everytown database has two shootings resulting in death on campuses during March 2020
https://everytownresearch.org/gunfire-in-school/#15055
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Thanks. I wouldn't have "college" as "school" but I know different people use different words in different places at different times. Still, there was someone killed at Atascocita High School in Humble, TX. But the kid killed was 19, so, yeah, definition - were they school students?Last edited by DCI Harry Batt; 13-04-2020, 17:11.
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It appears that both the victim and the prime suspect were former students
https://www.ourtribune.com/headlines...gh-school.html
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I would agree with all of that.
One of the reasons that is very difficult to have a meaningful conversation about gun violence in the US is that there is a very active effort on the part of anti-gun control forces to restrict both the collection of dissemination of data, which in turn has led to a number of different ad hoc research groups trying to fill the gap, each of which can use different definitions and rely on different sources
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This is really an unbelievable story. The more you read, the weirder it gets. The shooter was 51, but had a lifelong obsession with the RCMP. To the point where he collected uniforms, guns, and most importantly old police cars bought at auction. On the day of the shooting, he was driving a letter-perfect replica of an RCMP-spec Ford Taurus which he'd obviously put together in his garage. Most of the victims were pulled over by who they thought was an RCMP officer on patrol and then shot. Others were shot in their homes, and then the homes were torched.
This guy was affluent, with a small chain of denture clinics. But he was also apparently a heavy drinker and a bit....something. Distant. Odd. Not quite level. I'm sure we'll be finding out in the weeks to come that he'd applied to the RCMP and been rejected a few times over the years.
Let's hope Trudeau moves quickly on the gun thing.
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Two year implementation period
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1256257729896873989
As if anyone needed further evidence of the differences between the US and Canada, this can be done without legislation
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