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Bang! Bang! Pop – Pop – Pop… Gun fire in Scarborough
Bang! Bang! Pop – Pop – Pop…
the sounds last night went on for a while in the midst of over 200 people. Gun
fire and bullets flying.
This morning as I looked at
the News there is much about the shooting last night in Scarborough, Ontario.
How sad. One of the people hit by the flying bullets
was a child under three years old. All told
there was 19 injured by the gun fire and 2 were killed. The two that died were a girl in her early
teens and a guy in his early twenties.
What kind of a place could
this happen in?
Well the address of 193 Danzig Avenue in Scarborough is a relatively quiet place when
you look at the Google maps and then click on the Street View man… (try https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en)
I know
this area. From 1984 to 1991 we lived in
Scarborough. I was a Youth Minister, working with all kinds of teens from all
kinds of settings.
When we moved
from Scarborough to Saskatchewan we left our daughters living in Scarborough on
their own. We moved them into an
apartment building north of the 193 Danzig Avenue address. They lived at Morningside and Ellesmere.
My
son-in-law attended University at the U. of T. Scarborough Campus – just a
little to the north and east of Danzig.
Our
family is very familiar with this area… and might well know some folk from
there – if we still lived there.
193
Danzig Avenue is close to home for us.
When I looked
at the Map and the Street View offered by Google I could see the large parking
lot in front of the Row of apartments… quite likely where the incident took
place.
That
parking lot is deserted in Street View photo.
But last night there were over 200 people collected there to celebrate
at a BBQ.
It is likely
a miracle that more than 19(21) were not hit by bullets. The random act of violence by the men with
guns could have hit way more than they did.
There is
a “person of interest” that they are seeking now. People knew who was holding the guns. And the fact that there were about 21 possible
victims – there might have been that many shots – or more. (But one bullet can pass through two people
or more as well.)
It seems
that in my life I am reliving the horrible times over and over again.
As good
as Scarborough was and with as many good things we saw happen – there were also
some nightmares. This was especially
true after we left and our daughters lived alone… with the Scarborough Rapist
(likely Paul Bernardo) and gun shots a lot of the time in the area… I had a
real problem with what happened. I relived that problem again today.
Last week
a man died in our community. His death
spawned more Nightmares. He was from a
group of seniors that opposed almost everything we did at our church at a
certain time. He was not necessarily the centre of the problem… but people that
he associated with were.
His death
brought back horrific memories of that angry group that tried its hardest to
kill good ideas. They wanted things
their way and no other way.
Their
words were their “bullets”. Their
attitude was there “guns”.
When I
heard of his death I mourned in my own way for his family… but remembered his
friends… and I shuddered.
Scarborough
today has a whole mess of Nightmares that they will be dealing with. People of
193 Danzig will remember the gun fire and the bullets every time they exit
their home. When they see the wounded
recovering and the disabilities that will result from gun shots… they will remember.
Whenever they see the three young child with the scar from the bullet wound –
they will remember.
What has
one old man’s death have to do with the Scarborough shooting?
This
group of Seniors are going to have to answer someday to someone for their
attitudes. Almost a whole generation of
Youth were affected by the attitudes and words of mean and nasty old people there
are many scars.
As a
Pastor that has worked with the people of the “Gun Culture” in Scarborough and the
“Attitude and Nasty Words Culture” of some of Peterborough… I am suffering
today with the memories.
These
memories are my scars and they are hard to deal with.
Oh Boy!
~ Murray
Lincoln ~
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