{"id":231709,"date":"2019-09-20T23:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T03:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231709"},"modified":"2019-09-20T23:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T03:30:35","slug":"danforth-shooting-victims-disappointed-trudeau-wont-ban-handguns-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/20\/danforth-shooting-victims-disappointed-trudeau-wont-ban-handguns-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Danforth shooting victims disappointed Trudeau won&#8217;t ban handguns nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JustinPJTrudeau\/photos\/a.101277015648\/10158079418890649\/?type=3&amp;theater\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JustinPJTrudeau\/photos\/a.101277015648\/10158079418890649\/?type=3\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Walked the Danforth today with Noor, who lost her friend Reese in the tragic 2018 shooting here. She is exactly why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JustinPJTrudeau\/\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JustinPJTrudeau\/photos\/a.101277015648\/10158079418890649\/?type=3\">Friday, September 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 A woman who barely survived a mass shooting in Toronto&#8217;s Greektown applauded Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau&#8217;s proposal to ban assault rifles on Friday, but said handguns such as the one that left her paralyzed should also be prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>Danielle Kane was one of 13 people wounded when a gunman went on a shooting rampage on the Danforth on July 22, 2018. Two people \u2014 Reese Fallon, 18, and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis \u2014 were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau announced his gun control policy Friday in Greektown, not far from the site of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think anything less than what he is proposing is simply not acceptable because no one should have to live through what I&#8217;m living through right now: the pain, the misery, the burden, no one should,\u201d said Kane, who spent 11 days in a medically induced coma and two months in hospital learning to live as a paraplegic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his pledge to ban assault rifles, Trudeau also promised to allow municipalities the right to ban handguns \u2014 a move that disappointed some of the family members of the Danforth victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t ban handguns now, you&#8217;ll pay for it later,\u201d said Ken Price, speaking on behalf of the group Danforth Families for Safe Communities, which includes the families of nine victims of the shooting. \u201cHandguns don&#8217;t really belong in the hands of private citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His daughter, Samantha Price, was at a birthday party on the Danforth with seven friends when Faisal Hussain, armed with a handgun, opened fire indiscriminately. Four of her friends were shot, and one of them \u2014 Fallon \u2014 was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said the handgun used in the Danforth shooting was stolen from a gun shop in Saskatchewan years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Price said the victims&#8217; families welcomed Trudeau&#8217;s promise to ban assault rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve been asking for that, even though that wasn&#8217;t the weapon that affected us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the community also wants to see a federal ban on handguns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo push that to municipalities, I don&#8217;t understand that,\u201d Price said. \u201cIf Brampton says yes and Toronto says no, how is that helpful?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price did say, however, that the families appreciated Trudeau for making gun violence an election issue.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor John Tory said Trudeau&#8217;s proposals were a step in the right direction, but he also called for a federal ban on handguns<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not stop continuing to advocate, as overwhelmingly endorsed by Toronto city council, for a national handgun ban,\u201d Tory said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s nobody who argues it won&#8217;t do some good if we really believe a big part of the problem is the easy availability of too many handguns in the city of Toronto and elsewhere for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 20, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walked the Danforth today with Noor, who lost her friend Reese in the tragic 2018 shooting here. 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