‘This is my home,’ he said.”Beyond the notable tenacity of Torontonians, our reporting this week also reminded me that violence in Canada, where gun-control laws are relatively robust, is by no means the new normal. Torontonians have rallied together; the search for easy scapegoats that had followed some attacks in Europe was noticeably muted. Gun homicides in Canada are about as common as deaths from alcohol poisoning in the United States, which number about 5.6 per million people each year, according to this eye-opening analysis by The Times’s Upshot column. And while the cities of Toronto and Chicago have roughly the same populations, Toronto had 61 homicides in 2017 compared with 650 in Chicago, according to police data from both cities. There were a total of 660 homicides in the whole of Canada in 2017.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2018 18:39 UTC