Use of NRA hashtags hints at how the United States is shaping Canada’s gun debate.
By Emily Rauhala Emily Rauhala Staff writer covering Canada and foreign affairs Email Bio Follow April 11 at 6:00 AM TORONTO — Najma Ahmed figured she knew a thing or two about gunshot wounds.
Canada is often cast as a foil for the United States, a place separate and distinct, untouched by the social and political currents swirling to the south. That’s increased since the election of Donald Trump. “New groups are using the language of rights in an effort to move talk toward talking about ‘gun rights,’ ” said Blake Brown, a historian at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ahmed and her colleagues at St. Michael’s Hospital, like many Canadians, have watched in horror as the United States was hit by shooting after shooting, from Columbine to Sandy Hook to Las Vegas to Parkland. Mass shootings here have galvanized gun-control advocates. In 2017, a Canadian man carrying a licensed weapon fired 48 shots into a Quebec City mosque, killing six. Last summer, another shooter opened fire in Toronto’s trendy Danforth neighborhood, killing six and wounding more than a dozen.She and her colleagues, citing a growing body of medical research that treats gun violence as a public health crisis, are now calling for a ban on handguns and assault rifles.
After 35 people were killed in a 1996 shooting in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, the country sharply tightened restrictions on firearms and launched a buyback program that netted hundreds of thousands of weapons.
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