Colorado rampage claims woman who narrowly missed Toronto shooting - stands as reminder that gun control has failed

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Among the victims of Friday's mass shooting at a midnight screening of the latest "Batman" movie was an aspiring sportscaster from Texas who missed by minutes being on the scene of another shooting rampage just a month before in Toronto.

Jessica Ghawi, who used the name Jessica Redfield, was killed when a gunman opened fire in a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, during the opening moments of the "The Dark Knight Rises," her mother confirmed to Reuters by phone. Her brother, Jordan Ghawi, also said on his website that she had been killed.

Redfield had been commenting on Twitter from the theater moments before the shooting broke out.

"Of course we're seeing Dark Knight, red-headed Texan spitfires, people should never argue with me," she wrote under the Twitter handle @JessicaRedfield. "Maybe I should get in on those NHL talks."

Later she tweeted, "the movie doesn't start for 20 minutes." That was her final tweet.

 Just a month before on a visit to Toronto, Redfield, who was in her mid-20s, narrowly missed being on the scene of another shooting rampage. On June 2, Ghawi left the food court of Toronto's Eaton Centre less than five minutes before a man opened fire at the downtown mall.

"I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I saw the terror on bystanders' faces," she wrote in a blog post titled "Late Night Thoughts on the Eaton Center Shooting" at the site jessicaredfield.wordpress.com.

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Gunman shoots up Toronto mall - people defenseless because of handgun ban

A gunman fired shots in a crowded food court in one of Canada's busiest malls killing a man and injuring eight others, police said.

A 25-year-old man was shot dead and two people were in critical condition, including a 13-year-old boy, after the shooting at the Eaton Centre in downtown Toronto, said Victor Kwong, police constable.

Two people were trampled on and pushed, including a pregnant woman who went into labor after she was pushed, Kwong said. The suspect had not been apprehended, he said.

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In a society where hand guns are banned the people are defenseless against these kinds of assaults. People end up trampled and emotionally scarred for life because of this sort of thing.

Canada needs to abandon their illogical gun laws and allow the law-keepers to defend themselves against the law-breakers. In states where people are allowed to carry guns the outcomes in these types of situations are quite different. People are more hesitant to draw on a crowd when they know it will result their own death.

Wake up Canada.