Opinion: Assault weapons should be banned in Canada

Media coverage of the Crown’s evidence at the sentencing hearing in connection with last year’s massacre at Quebec City’s Islamic Cultural Centre has allowed Canadians to better assess Alexandre Bissonnette’s attack on 46 worshippers and four children who were struggling to hide or flee. Six of our brothers in the prime of their lives — Hassan, Aboubaker, Mamadou Tanou, Azzedine, Ibrahima and Khaled — could not escape death by bullets.
Citizens heard that