Yesterday a gunman went on a shooting spree in Toronto, Canada, killing two people and injuring 13 others before being nabbed by police. The murderer Faisal Hussain fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood before dying in a shootout with police, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman. Did the authorities call it terrorism? Not yet. Twenty-four hours after the event, we still don’t know the motive for the massacre.

It is instructive to read media reports on this event. The family immediately put out a statement, claiming their good boy was just psychotic and mentally ill (well, DUH – just how unhinged does one have to be to shoot a bunch of innocent people and murder a child?), and police – almost 24 hours later – refused to “speculate on a motive,” even though they refused to rule out terrorism.

But even as everyone refused to speculate on a motive, they certainly wasted no time calling for yet more gun control in Canada.

The Canadian Firearms Act, the Criminal Code, and their subordinate regulations govern gun ownership in Canada.

There are age restrictions, registration, criminal and psychiatric checks, and third party character references for each gun license applicant are required. There are also storage and transportation regulations. In short, every “common sense” regulation the gun grabbers shriek they want is already in use in Canada – and gun control regulations are even more stringent in Toronto.

Gee, it’s as if gun control doesn’t work!

According to Toronto Mayor John Tory, it apparently doesn’t.

“I’ve said for some time that the city has a gun problem, and that guns are far too readily available to far too many people,” Mr. Tory said. “There are far too many people carrying around guns in our region and our city who should not have them.”

I’m not going to be the person to speculate about terrorism right now. I will point out that authorities are being super cautious before ascribing the motive to terror, but not too cautious about putting out a clarion call to further deprive the citizens of their right to keep and bear arms.

But if I were to speculate…

I would remind everyone that ISIS and al-Qa’ida propaganda videos are still available online, and new media – videos, magazines, and online publications – are being produced.

I would remind everyone that ISIS targets lonely, disgruntled, unstable malcontents to carry out terrorist acts on its behalf in the West, to include mentally ill recruits.

And I would remind everyone that the majority of those who commit terrorist acts in the United States are born or naturalized, and radicalized here. There’s little reason to assume that the terrorist attacks in Canada are different. Just because we haven’t seen reporting about this latest guy screeching “ALLAHU AKBAR!” while he mowed down innocent people, doesn’t mean he wasn’t radicalized or that this wasn’t a case of Islamic extremism.

I would also remind you that there was a package that the police had to detonate.

And one last thing…

Earlier on Monday, Toronto Mayor John Tory called for stricter gun control, denouncing the city’s “gun problem” and asking, “why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?”

Considering Hussain walked around unimpeded, randomly firing his handgun into crowds and restaurants for at least several minutes before the police showed up, wounding multiple people and murdering two, and not a single person was able to intervene.

And Tory has the unmitigated gall to question why anyone would need a tool of self defense?

Jackass.

In the next few days there will be a lot of revelations about the motives for this tragic acts. The media will spin the event to drive the focus away from radical Islam – regardless of whether Hussain was radicalized and acting on inspiration of ISIS or al-Qa’ida or not.

But the calls for gun control will intensify. You can be sure of that.