Should the machetes be banned? Questions were raised after the attack on Edmonton McDonald’s

The Munjal attack on McDonald’s in the center of Edmonton is the latest violence that included the long lipstick, and it raises the question about why they were not banned in Alberta.

At about four o’clock in the morning, the police responded to McDonald’s at the corner of 111 Street Street and 106 Street, where four men knew each other involved in a waiting yard in the street restaurant from the Kingsway LRT station and the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Another men attacked a sickle, and he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

The three suspects left before the police arrived, but they were tracked, arrested and charged with a tight attack. Their names and ages were not revealed.

A woman named Xiana, who worked in Kingsway McDonald’s for a few years and did not want to share her last name for safety reasons, said that she had appeared to work a few hours later and believed that a murder had occurred.

“I thought someone died, frankly, because there was a lot of blood and it was like a horror movie. There was a hand group on the window, and I felt very surreal. This really led to my directing, and I had to work to see that.”

Xiana said that the fast food restaurant is in a rough area. She said that she had seen her fair share of accidents and was also affected by her: Someone resulted in pepper spray inside when she was working in the front counter and reached her face.

“This entire region in general, it is not just a sickle violence,” she said.

“Unfortunately, this happens a lot in the region that I am like a sensitivity of violence, unfortunately.”

The Monday’s attack adds to the list of enrollment accidents in Edmonton.

There was a random attack in Terrace Heights in May 2024. A man was taking his dog on a morning picnic in the East Edmonton neighborhood when he was attacked by two suspects with Machetes, which led to multiple stabbing wounds, cut and damaged teeth.

In August 2023, there were two attacks on two men: one at the beginning of the month when four people were seriously wounded-three of them in an attack on nightclubs in Beverly neighborhood in the north of Edmonton.

Then a few weeks later, a man was threatened with a knife and then attacked a sickle by a couple at the Southgate Mall of Transit in 2023.

Last winter, when dismantling the displaced camps, the police found the arms cache – including machetes.

The former informant of Edmonton Dan Jones, a criminal scientist and head of justice studies at the Nurkuist College, said the football attacks are periodic.

“I remember again when I was in a police condition – not only in the police, but on the street 20 years ago when I was in pulses – we had problems with Mactes. Then he seemed to calm down. Then I remember in 2012 to 2014, we faced another,” Jones said.

“We had a truly evil one at 5 pm in the middle of LRT, where a man had already lost his full arm and was in front of a group of people.”

Jones said a rash of accidents that naturally raises questions about the legislation of this element.

“Do we make regulations? Do we make illegal selling them? And there is an argument for that, right?”

Gones said that since the restriction of firearms to firearms, countries such as Australia and New Zealand have witnessed a significant decrease in armed violence, specifically, the shooting of schools.

“The school has not been shot in New Zealand, I don’t know, 15 years old because they reduced the access to firearms. So if you reduce reaching something, is it likely to have an effect? ​​And I think it is likely to be.”

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Jones also said that, unlike some other tools that are reused with violent means, he cannot think of a legitimate reason for the sickle in urban places.

“My question has always been,” Why do we have machines for sale in Canada anyway? Like, what is the use of the sickle?

“You should not be able to walk in a store and go to buy a sickle for no reason.”

Edmonton has taken steps in recent months to take the measures to access knives: In February, the city’s business license regulations were modified to add a store category for storage and define knives that cannot be sold in those companies. The goal is to reduce comfort or impulsive access to knives, but does not affect the sale of daily table tools.

Since the federal government has a judicial authority over criminal issues when it comes to knives and prohibited weapons, options at the municipal level are limited to changing the rules of business license and pressure on higher levels of government to change the law.

Jones noticed that he does not necessarily come to create new laws. In Canada, under criminal law, possession or carrying a weapon – including a sickle – for a dangerous purpose for public peace or a crime is a criminal crime that is punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years.

“So why do you gain regulations at the top of the criminal law?

The Minister of Public Safety of Alberta, Mike Elice, said that the boycott will leave the decision on prohibiting the sales of enrollment on individual municipalities, as the sickle that is used by a criminal in the inner city is different from the hunter or in the open air using it in the Alberta countryside bushes.

“It concerns the context. How these weapons are sold and used completely, I think it is better to leave them to the municipalities to make these types of decisions.”

Xiana said this is not good enough. She said that there are stabs, attacks and other violence in the Kingsway, whether near McDonald’s or via 111 Avenue at LRT station.

It became very bad, left her job at McDonald’s on Wednesday.

She said: “The area is not organized enough for me to feel safe at work, and this is not the company’s mistake.”

The area is very bad, and there is not enough police or security to keep us safe. “

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