School shooting in Toronto

If either John Tory or Stephen Harper attempt to score political points against the Liberals on this school shooting in Toronto, I will be very upset. It is upsetting enough about this tragedy without politicians trying to score political points on this terrible tragedy. I don’t want to hear from Stephen Harper that this incident is all the opposition’s fault for stalling Bills C-9 and C-10. Whoever did this was probably a first offender so that neither Bill C-9 nor Bill C-10 would have applied. That’s not mentioning the fact that Bill C-9 recently received third reading in the Senate and really has not been purposefully stalled anytime recently if ever.

I don’t want to hear from John Tory that Dalton McGuinty should have already done something to prevent this tragedy from happening. Tragedies happen. It looks as though this was not a random shooting but a targeted one for a specific reason against the victim. This is not the first targeted shooting that has occurred at Toronto’s schools in the last 7 years. If anything, its incidents like these that point to a need to ban handguns so that anyone caught with one could be arrested on the spot and prevented from committing an imminent crime. This is something Stephen Harper refuses to do. Because of that, maybe it’s time the provincial government looked at introducing its own handgun ban and exploring whether doing so is constitutional. In any event I will be very angry if I hear any Conservative politicians trying to blame the Liberals for this terrible tragedy.