Remember when you were a kid...

...and showing "disrespect" to someone... meant you got sent to your room?

“There was an exchange between Dylan Ellis and the offender. But it is insignificantly brief, something like, ‘How’s it going?’ Or ‘What’s up?’ and then it’s just shots,’” Det. Sgt. Giroux said.

He said he wonders what event led to the shooting. “It doesn’t have to be an overt, deliberate act from the victims that would cause this type of reaction."

"This could be fairly insignificant, but it’s important to the gunman and it was important to him to do something like this in a public place.”

This is, apparently, the new reality in Canada's largest metropolitan centres. You simply look at someone the wrong way... and you're dead.

And no amount of legislating, or willy-nilly banning is gonna make that right.

Just something to think about when you see your kids out the door tomorrow morning.

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A 19-year-old boy was in hospital Tuesday night after he was found shot in the leg at the Main Street TTC station in the city's east end.

It's not clear where the shooting happened. Police were first called to the station for a “disorderly male” on a bus. About two minutes before they arrived, a shooting was reported on a streetcar.

Here's an interesting take... since when is a 19-year-old a boy and not a man?

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