00:00And Freddie, we see this mass shooting happening in Canada.
00:04Obviously, it's something that we often think about when we think about mass shootings.
00:09We think about America.
00:10And the question about gun laws always comes up after an incident like this.
00:16How strict are the gun laws in Canada?
00:20Well, they're pretty strict, particularly in comparison to America and a lot of states in America.
00:26You have to have a license. You have to store the gun properly.
00:30It's similar to the UK, in fact, in terms of guns are strictly controlled in order for people to be
00:36able to hunt and shoot and so on.
00:39But obviously, the shooter in this case was able to get hold of a gun.
00:44And it makes me think about a conversation I had a while ago with one of our columnists here at
00:48The Spectator.
00:49It's called Lionel Shriver. And she wrote a book called We Need to Talk About Kevin, which I'm sure some
00:54of your viewers may have read or heard of.
00:56There was a film of it, too. And that was about a boy doing a school shooting.
01:02And I've talked to Lionel about it a lot because whenever there was a sort of mass shooting in the
01:07news, we'd talk to her and we'd say, what can you say?
01:09And she said she hated being asked about it because she deliberately made the killer in her novel use a
01:15crossbow, not a gun,
01:17because she didn't want the book to be about guns or the gun debate, because that's the sort of the
01:22endless media debate whenever there's a school shooting in America,
01:25because she wanted to be about the nature of evil.
01:28And I think it's interesting that, you know, maybe it's not just guns in America.
01:32Maybe it's American culture is we are catching up with American culture in many ways.
01:37America has been a much more online culture.
01:40And I don't want to get into the suspect.
01:42There's a lot of a lot of talk on the Internet about the suspected killer at the moment.
01:46And we shouldn't get into that because we don't know.
01:48But what does seem obvious is that what's happened in the last year is that we have seen young men
01:55being radicalized online in very strange ways.
02:00It's not just terrorist, Islamic terrorist radicalism.
02:05It can be far right radicalism.
02:06It can be far left radicalism.
02:08And it's wrapped up in lots of irony and memes.
02:11And it's very hard for people who aren't familiar with the online world to decipher.
02:16But that's what's going on is a kind of warping of young brains online.
02:20And that is leading them to do terrible things.
02:23Although, as I say, we don't know for sure in this instance.
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