One always wonders whether all the gun play is simply about intimidation, or whether the gang members are just really bad shots?
The one good thing with pistols is that they are horrible inaccurate, and gangbangers hand discipline is also brutal. To watch them shoot it's amazing they don't kneecap themselves vice hitting their target.
Airdrie has its first murder in many years today. Was out on the golf course near this community and I guess some of the people I was with heard the gun shot, all I heard was the sirens from police attending the scene.
Safe to assume that everyone in town knows who they are, despite the publication ban?
The accused, absolutely. There was a period when his photo and name were widely publicized. Handsome guy too. The victim I'm not sure. I, at least, have no idea who he was.
__________________ Note to self: "The plural of anecdote is not evidence."
I just realized how big Brampton is in a different thread. I would never have guessed it was 600,000 as it kinda slips under the radar compared to other GTA cities like Mississauga. I always thought it was in the 200-300k range.
It's grown extremely fast, doubling in population in the last 20 years. I get the feeling the crime is partially a spillover from proximity to Toronto's historically most dangerous neighbourhoods in Rexdale, Jane and Finch, etc. but I wonder how much is "homegrown" in the sense of the children of the first-generation immigrants falling down the wrong path.
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Discontented suburbanite since 1994
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