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Have they considered installing signs on their sidewalks proclaiming that they are "AUTOMOTIVE FREE ZONES"?

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

allisji wrote:

WTR wrote:

allisji wrote:Based on what the MSM is reporting it sounds like another depressed and deranged individual. An outcast young man who had had enough and snapped. Wanted to commit suicide by cop, but they were able to take him alive.

Based on video, it looked like he had a gun pointed at the officer, and reports are that he was shouting "Kill me!"

Looks like the officers got him to drop the weapon and lie down. I wonder if his gun were a real firearm, and if it was loaded.

What? They didn't shoot him because his gun didn't look like a cell phone!

Do police in Canada carry guns? Maybe they just had batons.

They confront perps by yelling "Stop or I shall yell 'Stop' again!"

I know that we're talking about Toronto, but that sounds like something from a Monty Python skit, which would be entirely accurate based on what I understand about law enforcement in Great Britain today.

WTR wrote:

allisji wrote:Based on what the MSM is reporting it sounds like another depressed and deranged individual. An outcast young man who had had enough and snapped. Wanted to commit suicide by cop, but they were able to take him alive.

Based on video, it looked like he had a gun pointed at the officer, and reports are that he was shouting "Kill me!"

Looks like the officers got him to drop the weapon and lie down. I wonder if his gun were a real firearm, and if it was loaded.

What? They didn't shoot him because his gun didn't look like a cell phone!

Do police in Canada carry guns? Maybe they just had batons.

Based on what the MSM is reporting it sounds like another depressed and deranged individual. An outcast young man who had had enough and snapped. Wanted to commit suicide by cop, but they were able to take him alive.

Based on video, it looked like he had a gun pointed at the officer, and reports are that he was shouting "Kill me!"

Looks like the officers got him to drop the weapon and lie down. I wonder if his gun were a real firearm, and if it was loaded.

G26ster wrote:I watched two news conferences in a row. First was about the shooting at the Waffle House. All about guns and legal questions about gun laws. Very little about the shooter (perpetrator). Next was the Toronto van attack. No mention of van laws, or van rental laws, only about the driver (perpetrator.) Odd how that works

If it turns out that this guy is a Islamist terrorist then they will stop talking about him. You know... they don't want to give him any fame or glorify his actions to any would-be copy-cats. If he's a white supremacist though... Then his picture will be plastered on every network station non-stop for most of the next year (or at least till after the 2018 midterm elections).

Abraham wrote:Odd, they don't come where people might shoot them before they get to commit mayhem.

Maybe, they will and won't they be surprised...?

I wouldn't be surprised by this kind of an attack in one of our cities. It would be hard for a bystander with a pistol to stop a maniac in a truck before he is able to run over lots of pedestrians on a crowded sidewalk.

right now I think it's more of a numbers game than anything else. How many ISIS or al Qaeda sympathizers live in Houston per capita compared to Toronto? You could question why the per capita number means anything when all it takes is one crazy person with a truck to commit this kind of terror. But I think that it's harder for one person to be emboldened to act in this manner if he doesn't have a network of people encouraging this type of horrific behavior.

All that said... the cop killer in Dallas could have used a truck to run over officers... the terrorist at Ft. Hood could have used a truck. The would be shooters in Garland may have been more "successful" if they had never gotten out of their vehicle as well. Someone could have run over hundreds of spectators during the Astros world series parade.

Abraham wrote:Details?

Johnny Jihad or simple, horrible accident?

Sounds very much to be no accident from eyewitness accounts. Driver was in a rental van from Ryder, running people down on the sidewalk. Sadly, we've heard this all before. Too many times. Barcelona, New York City, Nice, London. To borrow a phrase from London Mayor Sadiq Khan, this is part and parcel of living in a big city now.