This is such a horrific tragedy. My first thought was: “this kind of incident doesn’t happen in Calgary’! But obviously it does and it did. There is no place on earth safe from the evil in people’s hearts.
Calgary is a city of 1.1 million people. Here are the homicide stats for the last few years. Calgary is still a safe place to live, considering these are the annual and not monthly counts.
calgary annual homicides
source: CBC Calgary
2008 - 29
2009 - 23
2010 - 14
2011 - 10
2012 - 16
2013 - 22
2014 - 5 (until this morning)
The cumulative homicide rate for this year just doubled today from the stabbing spree. I think the city and its good people are in shock today over this senseless massacre.
Ban all knives now!
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