Angry in the Great White North

The shooting in Vancouver's Fortune Happiness Restaurant continues to dominate the news:

Vancouver police launched a massive hunt Thursday for two masked gunmen who strolled into a Chinese restaurant at about 4:30 a.m. and opened fire, killing two of eight people at one table and wounding six others in what police described as possibly the worst shooting in city history.

“This is one of the most heinous [shootings] we have ever come across,” Deputy Police Chief Bob Rich told a packed news conference, hours after the gunfire at the Fortune Happiness Restaurant, located within two kilometres of the site of the future athlete's village for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Police refused to comment on the kind of weapons used, whether the victims were armed, or how the assailants entered. They spoke at length about the need to deal with gang violence in the city, but declined to explicitly link the crime to gangs.

But that this was a targeted gang hit seems likely.

Will the massive hunt succeed? Depends. If the hitmen have already been put on a boat back to Hong Kong, then probably not. Another possibility is that the police will find them...dead.

The restaurant had surveillence cameras, so the killers might now be a liability.