5 Feet of Fury

”I’d like to be a dental assistant,’ one woman tells me.’

Margaret Wente visits the scene of the crime:

She has elaborate hair extensions and long acrylic fingernails, and as we talk she jiggles a baby carriage. She has four children, and she already has a grandchild, who’s older than this one. She is obviously sincere. But it sounds more like a wish than a realistic aspiration.

Meanwhile, Michael Coren writes:

There was a BMW SUV parked outside the house, the earnest reporter told us on the radio earlier this week, following the shooting of more than 20 people, and the killing of two at a Toronto party.

But surely the reasons for urban shootings are poverty, lack of air-conditioning, too few basketball courts, racism and a history of oppression...