Human Addiction Permeates Canadian Double Murder

Kawku Grimpong is accused of shooting Ziad Ahmad and Phillip Salmon two years ago in Ottawa, Canada. The CBC is highlighting the fact that the weapon used by Grimpong was a “straw purchase” smuggled into Canada from the United States. The second paragraph of the story tells the reader what type of weapon was used and points out that the “pistol costs less than a base-model iPod in the U.S. The only inference one can draw from this is that Americans like cheap guns over cheap music players. What the story doesn’t highlight is the fact that human addiction, some state sponsored, runs rampant in this tragedy. Read more