A person stands at a memorial after a vigil for victims of Sunday's mass shooting on Danforth Avenue on July 25 in Toronto. Ralph Goodale, the public safety minister, told journalists that he's studying the issue but warned that any ban would require a “significant remodeling” of Canada's Criminal Code. Gun violence remains much less common in Canada than in the United States, with an estimated 11,000 gun-related homicides in the United States in 2016, against 223 in Canada. Yet gun violence is on the rise, and illegal handguns are increasingly easy to get, according to Wendy Cukier, president of Canada’s Coalition for Gun Control. According to Toronto police, 75 percent of guns seized in 2011 originated south of the border, but that number dropped to 55 percent in 2017.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2018 16:02 UTC