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For Price, the information bolstered his determination to push for stricter gun laws.

“This confirmed our feeling,” he said. “It’s a risk in society to allow gun ownership to be as pervasive as it is, especially handguns.”

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Hussain, 29, had medical and behavioural interventions through his school years and into early adulthood. He was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder as a teen, and was on and off treatment for years until he rejected it outright in 2014, according to police.

Price said he thought a lot about how Hussain could have been stopped, focusing on the intersection between mental health and access to guns.

“You have a right as an adult to make your own decisions, but what is the balance between behaviour that every once in a while is self-destructive versus potentially publicly destructive?” he asked “These are not easy questions. He fell right below the line.”

Tackling the issue of access to handguns would at least be part of the solution in such cases, Price said.

Price’s 18-year-old daughter ended up being among 613 people were shot in the city last year — 51 of those died, according to police data.

Patrick McLeod, whose daughter Skye was with Price’s daughter and Fallon on the night of the Danforth shooting, also believes the attack has highlighted the importance of restricting handguns.

“You’ll never solve this completely, but you want to make it harder for the bad guys to get weapons,” he said, adding that while his daughter wasn’t shot that night, she’s still struggled to deal with the terror of what happened.