What is a bow but a primitive gun?
Police have made an arrest in the crossbow slaying of a man in a library in Toronto’s east end…Witnesses told CBC’s Jermaine Hylton they saw a man approach the victim, who was sitting on a bench in the library, and then pepper-spray him. He was then shot, either in the face or the back, witnesses said.
That type of random and underhanded attack, the tools aren’t really all that important. A zap of pepper spray (or hairspray, or bug spray, spray-paint, coffee cup filled with drain cleaner….) to distract a person, then a coup-de-grace with just about anything. A rock or a pipe would be plenty, to kill.
Maybe my Canadian readers could share with me the restrictions on crossbows in Canada. I know they’re heavily restricted in most places, including requiring a pistol permit to buy in North Carolina. A lot of good all that noise does…
h/t MaddMedic
I sent you a link to this also. Apparently it was a son shooting and killing a father. The father had a LONG history of abuse against his family. And the comments from the sheep in the article I sent just make one go *derp*.
Canada does not prohibit crossbow ownership except for pistol crossbows (i.e. easily concealable). One interesting item I found out is that Canada has a few crossbow attacks every year! I wonder if they will now get around to banning them now.
Yeah I still have your email, but I only got a chance to skim it to see if it was the same case. You may be onto something with crossbow attacks. I actually found a few in the US as well.
Also anybody who thinks a pistol crossbow is “Easily concealable” are probably the same people who think Harry Callahan was totally carrying that 6″ S&W M29 under his tweed jacket the WHOLE TIME!