Canada Ping!
Posted on 04/15/2014 7:11:20 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian
A suspect is in custody after five people, all youths in their teens to 20s, died following early-morning stabbings in northwest Calgary.
The stabbings happened around 1:20 a.m. MT on Tuesday at an address in the 100 block of Butler Crescent N.W., police said.
According to neighbours, the youths had been celebrating the last day of university classes with a fire in a home's backyard.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
A mass homicide fitting this profile is an odd one, but I can imagine a few circumstances.
1) Hallucinogenic drugs or acute psychotic episode.
2) The group had turned on him and were trying to pin him down for some reason.
3) He had passed out and one of them sexually assaulted him while the others helped.
So sad.
Prayers up.
He has been identified as Matthew de Grood, son of police officer Doug de Grood. Kid had been accepted to law school.
Checking Wikipedia, it shows the US has a murder rate of 4.7 per 100K population versus 1.6 per 100K population in Canada. It also shows that you are 40% more likely to be robbed in the US, than in Canada (112.9 vs 79.36 per 100K pop).
If you go to the source documents referenced in the Wikipedia article (FBI, Statistics Canada), you will find that on the surface, Canada is a much more violent place, with 1,190.12 violent Criminal Code violations per 100K population versus 386.9 in the US. Again, due to differences in the laws, reporting is different. For example, 'uttering threats' is classified as a 'violent' crime in Canada. The rate of assault in Canada is 678.21 versus 242.3 for aggravated assault in the US meaning, perhaps, you are more likely to be told 'where to go' in Canada, as you are much less likely to catch a bullet for your trouble than in the US. Someone telling someone else 'where to go' may be considered a violent crime in Canada.
Personally, I've walked through many neighbourhoods in Calgary and Edmonton at night and, though I felt a little nervous in some, other than a few smart comments by drunk Natives, I've never had a problem. I can't say that would be the norm if I walked through parts of Detroit at night!
Can anything be drawn from these statistics? Generally, one is more likely to be murdered or robbed in the US, but one is more likely to be assaulted (in one form or another) in Canada.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/matt.degrood?fref=ts
Calgary Police Service.
Sword ping!! This time... More of an “edged weapons” ping. But still...
I once did some calculations, and found that if you subtracted black homicides and Hispanic homicides, the remaining white homicide rate was about what it was in Europe and Canada.
Last Facebook entry was 22 hours ago, sometime between 6:00PM and 7:00PM yesterday. He wrote, “Dread and the fugitive mind- the world needs a hero.” Weird! The Chief of the CPS said earlier that the suspect brought the knife from work and they are likely to charge him with 1st degree murder.
How does one recognize a demented mind in time to stop them before they hurt others?
No doubt! Crime rates are higher in ‘projects’ in most countries. With a lot of Jamaicans now living in Toronto, mostly in the ‘projects’, I guess that some of these ‘projects’ are very dangerous for those of us who are ‘melanin challenged’. There is also a much higher incidence of crime among the First Nations people in Canada.
It was as scarce as the Bundy ranch event on CNN.
Of course as you know, the reason is because this was another mass murder with a simple knife as the weapon.
After all, the leftist and anti Second Amendment liberals use knives too.
The controlling socialist and Communist in our country who've gained power in govenrment want to lay waste to 2nd Amendment.
Broadcasting that mass murder can easily be performed with clubs, knives, speeding cars, fire or hatchets, goes against their endless portrayal of guns being the evil culprit of mass murder.
Anyone who is not expecting a knife attack will die. There is no defense against walking by a seemingly friendly person at a party and then getting 10" of steel into your back.
On top of that, 21' is a distance outdoors. There are rarely such distances indoors; houses are a maze of little twisty passages, and the attack can easily come from the room that you just walked by. In most cases the victim will not even know what happened. The killer can lure victims into rooms, thus delaying discovery of his activities.
What's a "Nubian"?
Anyone who hasn't been on FR as long as you.
Thak God he didn’t use a GUN or somebody might have been ki... never mind.
Black.
This is a very strange story.
this is a pretty bizarre one. 5 dead in Calgary stabbings.
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