Posted on 01/24/2006 2:19:01 PM PST by radar101
Toronto's mayor is blaming rising gun crime in Canada on the export of guns and violence across the U.S. border. Or maybe it's Canada's gun-control laws?
The incident, he said, was "a sign that the lack of gun laws in the United States is allowing guns to flood across the border that are literally being used to kill people in the streets of Toronto."
The fact is that violent crime rates in the U.S. have declined dramatically since 1994,
Perhaps it's because during the 1990s, when countries like Canada, Britain and Australia were regulating, even banning, gun possession, the U.S. was going in the opposite direction. Thirty-seven of the 50 states now have "right-to-carry" laws that let law-abiding citizens defend themselves against armed predators.
Crime did not drop after England banned handguns in 1997. Violent crime in the U.K. nearly doubled in the four years from 1998-99 to 2002-03.
Australia also saw its violent crime rate surge after it banned private possession of most firearms in 1996. If lax gun laws are the problem, why is Canada's reported violent crime rate of 963 per 100,000 in 2003 more than double the U.S. rate of 475? Maybe because our law-abiding citizens can defend themselves and our criminals know it.
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Canada's waking up.
Canada Ping!
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Canada's being lazy. Canada, by this statement, is de facto supporting its criminals and taxing neighbor US. Typical racist behavior by socialists aiming to trap foreigners in their "international" institution... as if a free man were not free and had to be under such hegemonic institution...
The Canadian liberals have lost their political butts because of their stupid gun laws, but they wil blame anyone and everyone but themselves for their faulty thinking, and ignoring the facts about gun ownership. Not to mention the fact that they distrust the law abiding citizen more than they do the criminals.
Seems like the article reads in support of loosening gun restrictions on the law abiding, not sure what your point is...
Armed hoodlums are running rampant in Toronto, but this numbnutted jag-off finds the time last week to sign a Greenpeace petition at city hall against whale hunting.
check this out! maybe someone should email it to the mayor of TO???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1561051/posts
I am going to thow away all my guns now since some wussy frog from Canada is afraid to crack down on crime in his own country.
Corrupt socialist scum in Canada blaming the results of his totalitarian incompetence on the US. What a d*uchebag.
In the US, he would be a John Kerry type democrat.
Correction. I see that he is British-Canadian. Even more disappointing. At least the elections up thee went well yesterday.
The article yes, but not Canada apparently... not the mayor at least.
My point was that Canada seems to be waking up, because the article points to the inherent fallacy in the mayor of TO's statement...also, latest election results.
In Hoc.
Mr. Mayor, a "flood"? Then the majority of the guns are obviously flooding into Toronto via the 450 otherwise empty trucks that return daily from dumping Toronto's garbage and liquid sewage in Michigan landfills (Garbage Out, Garbage In?). You are responsible for this situation. Stop the exporting of Toronto's garbage and trash and save the people of Toronto.
Well , stop charging $53 a ton to take it . Jeez, no one is twisting your arm.
Got news fer ya pal.
This guy is an NDPer (a party way left of the Liberals).
He makes Kerry look like Ronald Reagan..
Must be an echo from New York, or from Canada to New York on the "flood" of guns. So should we expect some kind of legislation from the anti-gunners? What Canada should do is bottle the violence, tax it to increase their revenue, and then send it across the water to Detroit. Call it Capony Baloney.
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