Saturday, February 11, 2006

TORONTO'S "Gun" Problem

Toronto Mayor David Miller, Ontario Justice Minister Michael Bryant, and now Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty all want to solve Toronto's "gun problem" by banning handguns. How liberal.

David Miller, Michael Bryant and now Dalton McGuinty will never solve gun violence.

Gun collectors and hobbyists have been around forever. Yet brazen gang shootings in Toronto have reached a new peak on their watch. This is not a problem in Dryden, Cornwall, or Chatham Ontario. This is a Toronto problem.

Rather than focusing on the real problem ... a certain segment of society that has chosen to completely disregard all conventions of human decency and respect for human life, these "leaders" have chosen to blame inanimate objects (guns), responsible licensed hobbyists and the U.S. constitution. Now they want to change our constitution to give them the right to ban handguns. Hopefully Prime Minister Harper will wisely give them a flat NO.

Rather than making work for an army of bureaucrats chasing down responsible and respectful hobbyists whose legal pastime happens to offend the urbane sensibilities of these hopeless social engineers, they need look no further than Mayor Giuliani’s solution in New York City which worked.

Hire an army of police officers, and get them on the street to find, arrest and put away for a long, long time the thugs, the drugs and the criminals for whom no law or regulation will make one iota of difference.

Until this trio can get beyond their Toronto-centric leftist dogma to make the right diagnosis, they will never in a million years effect a cure. They just don't get it.

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