Quote:
Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
That 1 in 10 are people who didn’t previously know each other - doesn’t make them random attacks. It includes violence between rival gangs, people who get into bar fights, road rage incidents that escalate, etc.
The unprovoked murder of criminally unaffiliated people going about their day-to-day lives in public spaces by strangers is really, really rare. Not so rare that we should expect it should always be national news in a country like the USA. But it isn’t necessarily evidence of a political agenda at work when it is. If a mom who was shopping at Lululemon got stabbed to death in the Chinook mall parking lot by some deranged passerby, it would 100 per cent be national news across Canada, carried by CBC, CTV, the Globe & Mail, etc.
|
There's been a fair number of random knife attacks in Vancouver lately:
https://vpd.ca/news/2025/05/15/51890/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...idge-1.7589785
https://vpd.ca/news/2024/09/04/vpd-a...ranger-attack/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq624628gj5o
Only one death in there, but it seems like a growing problem to me. All of these incidents in just over a year, and I'm sure my list isn't exhaustive.