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Originally Posted by spetch
Sounds to be a targeted shooting. Pretty crazy day here in Central alberta, This shooting, Alix Bank Robbery and Stettler School lockdown for a potential school shooting.
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I was curious because it just seems like shootings are way up this year.
I went to Stats Can to take a look and I could only find 2014 to 2018 stats.
Since 2014 firearm homicides have grown from 155 to 249, 2017 was a banner year with 269, last year was 249.
In terms of the firearms used, the main weapon of choice was handguns with the majority of last year being 143.
As a testiment to the questionable talk about "Assault style weapons" ban, in 2018 fully automatic weapons accounted to 2 rifles and shotguns were 56. Of course its likely that the fully auto's were already on the banned list. The stat I have is what percentage of the guns used were illegal.
In Toronto this year there have been 20 firearms related deaths but they set a record in terms of shootings as it hit 267 shootings by August up 15 on the total of Toronto shootings of the year before.
In Calgary there have been 60 shootings between Jan and Aug. that was double the year before in the same time frame.