28 May 2022

SMELL THAT 'PROFESSIONAL' JOURNALISM

CBC ONCE AGAIN REACHES OUT TO HANDPICKED 'EXPERTS' 

Inexplicably... Toronto's very own Pravda turns hard right and attempts to justify Toronto cops shooting someone out in Scarborough the other day... and fumbles badly...insert alt text here

-- "Michael Kempa, an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, says 'pellet guns can in fact be quite dangerous,' adding that they shoot a bullet that looks quite a lot like a regular firearm bullet.'" --

For all you non-firearms folks out there... that is a .22 calibre air gun pellet next to a regular .22 calibre bullet... the smallest commercially available round you can buy. It is larger than the smaller & more ubiquitous .177 pellet.   Note that this image is also larger than scale

As for the good Professor's statement that, 'pellet guns can in fact be quite dangerous'... based on my own childhood memories, I suspect that 10 out of 10 squirrels would agree.