If Mayor David Miller ever needed another reason to ramp up the pressure surrounding his handgun ban demands for the city, he found it early Friday morning.
It comes in the faces of two new innocent victims, a pair of 25-year-old friends who were gunned down in their car near the Entertainment District. Police have confirmed that
Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin both appeared to have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time when they met their still unknown killer or killers.
Cops think car theft may have been behind this latest outrage on city streets in what's turning into a very bloody month in Toronto.
Miller claims he's infuriated by the incident and will stop at nothing until the kind of criminals who could so callously kill two good people are sent to jail and others like them stopped from committing their violent actions here.
His statement of sorrow came from the heart - and the entire city. "On behalf of 2.6 million Torontonians, I would like to express my condolences and their condolences to both families involved. Like everyone, I was shocked to hear the news of last night's shooting. Like everyone, I'm infuriated when any shooting happens on the streets of Toronto. For the families involved, it's incredibly traumatic."
And it's traumatic too for the residents, who have gradually begun to wonder if there's any safe place in what used to be Toronto the Good.
Miller has been adamant that a full out handgun ban is necessary to stop the escalating violence, even going so far as
forcing gun clubs out of city owned facilities.
But
registered and responsible gun owners are equally sure that won't solve the problem, arguing that keeping firearms away from them won't keep them out of the hands of those who obtain them illegally - and they're the ones who cause the problems.