Crossbow killing

[seabast]

Whats the difference between the crossbow and a knife ? Given your logic, our hunting knives should be licenced as well.

try killing someone at 50 yards with a hunting knife.

And it doesn't sound as much fun either....

[welsh]

Don't bet the farm on it. The Toronto media is already banging that drum.

As I said, a hysterical editorial or two.

Actually changing the law? Not likely.

[MikePal]

Happens more that you'd think...

Homicides with crossbows are rare but not unknown in Canada. This list was compiled by the Canadian Press:

• In December 2010, 24-year-old Zhou Fang shot his father in the back with a crossbow then crushed his skull with a hammer, at a public library in Toronto’s east end.
• In July, a Mission, B.C., father was charged with attacking his son who was shot in the forearm with a crossbow.
• In November 2007, a 26-year-old man was charged with murder and attempted murder after his mother was killed and father was injured by a crossbow in St-Cesaire, Que.
• In October 2002, a dairy farmer was shot in the back and injured with a crossbow in St.-Bonaventure.
• In August 1998, a man asleep in his Hamilton home was shot in the head and injured by a man who fired a crossbow.
• In 1998, Edward Stuart Walker shot a pregnant Stephanie Celestine Thomas with a crossbow, then stabbed her 46 times in Central Saanich on Vancouver Island.
• In September 1994, Yvon Gosselin was driven to a gravel pit near Terrace, B.C., where he was killed with two bolts from a crossbow.
• In May 1995, a man armed with a crossbow entered the Winnipeg Convention Centre shortly before then-prime minister Jean Chretien arrived to deliver a speech. The suspect was arrested.
• In January 1993, B.C. Institute of Technology student Silvia Leung, 22, bled to death in the campus parking lot in Burnaby after being hit in the shoulder by a crossbow.
• In November 1991, Ottawa lawyer Patricia Allen was killed with a crossbow by her estranged husband Colin McGregor.

[Species8472]

There was also one in Kitchener in 2015.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/k...eath-1.3280232

[MikePal]

Not a bad idea...considering the alternatives.

Retailers should screen crossbow buyers for court-ordered weapons prohibitions, an Ottawa lawyer says.


The comments come after three people were found dead Thursday in a Scarborough, Ont. house with injures from crossbow ‘bolts,’ or arrows. Thirty-five-year-old Brett Ryan faces three counts of first-degree murder in their deaths.

“When a weapons prohibition is ordered by courts, they give a long list of things, and they include crossbows on that list, always,” Solomon Friedman, a firearms law expert, explains. “It’s required by the wording of the Criminal Code.”

However, stores selling crossbows have no way of knowing about a court order. Unlike firearms, a licence isn’t needed to buy a crossbow.

In New Brunswick, the provincial chief firearms officer gives gun retailers lists of people who are under weapons prohibitions, Friedman says. It should be practical to scale that up to a searchable database, and open it to crossbow sellers, he says.

“I don’t think it would be a big deal to have a prohibited persons registry,” he argues. “It shouldn’t cost all that much money and shouldn’t take all that much time.”

Ryan had previously been charged with numerous offences related to robberies in the Greater Toronto Area. He was dubbed the “Fake Beard Bandit” after a disguise he wore.

Court documents reveal Ryan was charged in 2008 and convicted in 2009 of robbery and disguise with intent.

When he was sentenced in 2009, the judge imposed a lifetime weapons possession ban that covered both firearms and crossbows.

Under Canadian law, crossbows that are less than 50 centimeters long, or that can be fired with one hand, are prohibited. But crossbows longer than that, that need both hands to fire, aren’t regulated.

That means that crossbow owners don’t get the scrutiny that gun owners do.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2905269/af...s-lawyer-says/

[johnjyb]

My significant other just came up to me and swears the news just said that crossbows kill instantly. I tried to explain that the target dies from blood loss, but she wouldn't listen and walked away. It was on tv news so it's gospel.
John

[trimmer21]

That's some kind of a cold-blooded killer that can take the time to re-load a crossbow and shoot three people. Just think about that for a minute. Shivvers,man,shivvers......

[rick_iles]

That's some kind of a cold-blooded killer that can take the time to re-load a crossbow and shoot three people. Just think about that for a minute. Shivvers,man,shivvers......

Apparently, there is some question now whether the victims were actually shot, or stabbed by a bolt. Still, cold blooded for sure.

[skypilot]

I heard some victims had CB bolt in them. Not likely to happen unless stabbed with the bolt as even a compund bow usually goes thru a deer.

3 years and nine months for 8 counts of bank robbery......what a joke of a justice system. Now a murderer times 3.

[rick_iles]

I heard some victims had CB bolt in them. Not likely to happen unless stabbed with the bolt as even a compund bow usually goes thru a deer.

3 years and nine months for 8 counts of bank robbery......what a joke of a justice system. Now a murderer times 3.

For sure.....we called that "job security".!