A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others.

Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, who police identified as a 30-year-old man.

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“It’s something you don’t expect to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.”

He continued, “It was like a war zone… There were bodies all over the ground.”

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    912·
    23 hours ago

    And I never said guns weren’t a problem, that’s you talking for me because you have no respect for anyone else’s opinion if it might challenge yours.

    I hope you’re smart enough to understand what an “analogy” is? If not, here you go. “Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share.” Hope that helps, champ. 🥰

    • Grass Cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      23 hours ago

      posting definitions at someone who appears more educated than yourself is straight middleschool behavior from you.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        59·
        21 hours ago

        They clearly weren’t educated enough to understand the basic rhetorical device of analogy – that I was comparing excuses for mass-shootings to excuses for car rammings as functionally the same – so I feel pretty secure in posting definitions.

        Middle-school behavior for middle-school concepts, I guess?

        Edit: sorry, I forgot that they also think this person could’ve killed nine eleven people and injured twenty with their bare fists, so maybe middle-school behavior was too sophisticated.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        20 hours ago

        So you do or do not understand that when I was talking about guns, I was drawing a direct comparison between your misdirection away from the lack of regulation to mental health and right-wingers’ misdirection away from the lack of regulation to mental health? Not actually assuming what your stance on gun regulation is? That is our common understanding now, right? You can amend your comment to acknowledge that you misunderstood this basic rhetorical device? Or acknowledge it in some form? You’re not going to “never play defense” me here, right?

        • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
          35·
          22 hours ago

          You hate cars more than you hate people dying. That’s probably why you don’t like to dive too deep into mental health.

          • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            21 hours ago

            So “never play defense” then? On the concept of an analogy and the “fists” thing, right? Everyone is Kiryu Kazuma going around, killing nine eleven and injuring twenty with their fists?

            Can you acknowledge that you were wrong about the analogy? And can you acknowledge that comparing a fist attack to an attack perpetrated by a car driver is asinine?

            • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
              34·
              21 hours ago

              It’s possible to tell when you have won when the opponent starts attacking things like grammar and language as a last ditch effort to get the dopamine they need for they day.

              I hope you have the day you voted for 🥰 goodbye.