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Letters to the editor: May 2026

A History of Violence

On the same day that my letter carrier delivered the March/April issue of The Walrus with its blazing cover, “The Untold Story of the Deadliest Mass Shooting in Canadian History” by Lisa Banfield, a young woman in Tumbler Ridge in northeastern British Columbia shot her mother and half-brother, went to the nearby high school, and shot an educational assistant and five students before turning the gun on herself. Over 100 Americans are killed by bullets every day. The United States’ fascination with firearms and its normalization of gun violence, which shows little sign of abating, must not spread here.

Michael Cox Vancouver, BC

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