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Etobicoke Centre NDP candidate Erica Kelly, who posted that she would not be sad if “gun nuts” were blown up by a drone, has now apologized for the comment.

“I know this is horrible to say… but I would not be sad to see these gun nuts threatening civil war have their asses blown to f–k with a drone,” Kelly said. “I mean, really, if only just to see their ‘tyranical government’ 2nd amendment argument blown to smithereens.”

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“I know that’s horrible to say, but it they don’t care about kids lives being lost with the way things are there now…. I don’t really care about them either.”

Earlier Friday, Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz was criticized by the Ontario Progressive Conservatives for sharing an Adolf Hitler quote online and for calling the Canadian military in Afghanistan a “slaughtering machine.”

Riaz has said she has no idea how the Hitler meme was posted, and said she has long worked to promote interfaith understanding.

But PC Leader Doug Ford has accused the NDP of running a slate of candidates that represent “radical” views that are far outside the Ontario mainstream.