Laura W🇨🇦

Die hard Toronto sports & Bears fan livin it up in Nottawa. Proud mom, writer, UofT alum with a background in marketing and business restructuring. 😁

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@PierrePoilievre This is a lie. Many of our Anglican clergy not only led Remembrance services on Sunday but are chaplains to the Legions and are members of the forces who will be taking part at Remembrance ceremonies.

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

The refs in this game are horrid. What a joke. #CopaAmerica2024

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Guns are a uniquely American problem.
The rest of the world has mental health issues.
The rest of the world has ideological & philosophical division.
They have social media, pot, porn, cellphones & video games.

What they don’t have — is more guns than people, they don’t have more than 500 mass shootings in less than a year, they don’t have a populace paralyzed with fear that their child will be next. That THEY could be next.

At least, not until they arrive here.

After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semiautomatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.

In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks The rate of mass shootings went from once every 18 months to only one in the 26 years since.

Canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting.
So did Germany in 2002, New Zealand in 2019 and Norway in 2021.

Meanwhile here in America… since the Columbine massacre, there have been a total of 304 fatal school shootings in the United States.

Since 1999, 440 people have been killed and 1,243 injured in shooting events at K-12 schools.

Since Sandy Hook — mass shootings have nearly tripled.

121 people have been killed and 281 people have been injured from school shootings since Parkland.

And there have been well over 100 incidents of gunfire at K-12 schools since the Uvalde school shooting.

In 2023, in the 632+ mass shootings recorded, 597 people died and 2,380 people were injured.

In total last year in this country - more than 40,000 people died from gun violence. That is an average of almost 118 gun deaths each day.

Every year, approximately three million kids are exposed to gun violence.

This. Is. An. American. Problem.
There are more civilian owned guns in this country than there are civilians.
It’s not the pot, the porn, the video games, it’s not the wrong kinds of locks, or too few “good guys with guns”, and it’s not the mental health issues.
Every country on earth has those things. And they don’t live this way.

It’s the guns.

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@HistoryMuppet @MarkHamill awe. 😊❤️

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC Now the songs stuck in my head. Lol

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@DevinCow @TG22110 Whew. Was wondering when we couldnt find you in the pasture. Get well!

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC 🍍is gross at anytime. Lol 😁

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC Nope. Nope. Nope. Lol

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC Twitter is not the healthiest place to ask this......as I read the replies...🙄

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

Just wow.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The duet that I never knew existed.

Miles Davis came on stage to play with Prince in 1987 and it is perfect.

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@DevonESawa @Alek_Manoah6 @BlueJays Awesome way to come back! 😊

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@poppa_ken @generalsynod There was a miscount on the first vote.

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC Way to go Mags. 😊❤️

[Rob Serra @SerraRob]

Hey ⁦@PGATOUR⁩ I love this pic of my wife being taught how to put by her dad. He loved playing golf up until he was murdered by your business partners on 9/11/01. #NeverForget #GFY

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@thisgirl140 @BlueJays Goes hand in hand with being a Leaf fan 🙄

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@MaggieMayC Apparently I'm short about 64 garments and 17 outfits🤷

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@DevinCow @NunesAlt So gross. Lol

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@DevinCow This 12 year old weirdo. ❤️❤️😊

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@BrentButt B :)

[Laura W🇨🇦 @lauradw]

@DevinCow Definitely blue