Posted on 08/12/2005 5:58:11 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
In recent weeks, gun violence in Toronto has become so prevalent that even the lefties who think that all of society’s problems can be solved with group hugs, can’t avoid the issue. When a recent spate of gun violence happened, that included the shooting of a 4-year-old boy outside of his home, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty swung into action. The premier, who has been lately speaking about "American guns on Canadian streets" said that he would discuss the matter of guns with the new American ambassador, David Wilkins
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Odd. Gun violence is up in Great Britian and Australia as well. Are US guns to blame there as well, or perhaps can we blame the policy of disarming law abiding citizens?
Yeah, that will solve it. A discussion. If I was the U.S. ambassador during that discussion, I would sit there the entire time, smiling, while I imagined the Cunuck's wife naked. Yawn.
Excuse me, but NYC has one of the lowest violent crime rates of any big city in the Country, including DFW, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Birmingham, Phoenix, Denver, and just about every other city that has gun laws that are far less restrictive than the laws in NYC. I'm not suggesting that there is a cause and effect. What I am suggesting is that you learn your facts before you make such stupid generalizations.
Sorry, I was still remembering the Pre-Guiliani days of Dinkensian Liberal Paradise......
Anything that comes out of Dahmer McGuinty's mouth is suspect - he's broken every single promise in office, so fear not - this is not a credible voice.
And then you have his lib buddy, Mayor Miller, who made a HUGE flip flop campaigning not to increase the police force, and then surpassing his conservative rival in calling for 250 new officers.
Liberals, sure we believe them...
New York City has one of the lowest violent crime rates "of any big city" for a couple of very basic reasons: 1) it's a police state (nearly 40,000 law enforcement officers, and that's just on the municipal level); and 2) it's a very expensive place to live, which means that most of the city's criminal element has simply moved into neighboring urban/suburban areas. I know for certain that violent crime has escalated dramatically in places like Westchester, Nassau, and Rockland Counties in New York and in much of northern New Jersey.
No problem.
Love Toronto, love the downtown, the Royal York, the lake, etc. Sometimes politicians on both sides of our border blow off for local consumption. If I were the US ambassador, I'd take a two week vacation, in Calgary.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
McGuinty, you freak - don't be blaming America for the failure of your Canadian Customs & Immigration Service to do their job.
IOW, what Dick Cheney said to Leaky Leahy, got it?
"GFY!"
And don't overlook Glen Abby, home of the Canadian National (Canadian Open) ? golf course. It has a PAR 5 hole that includes a driver shot off a cliff that looks like you would have a repelling rope to get down from...
NYC had 8.1 million people, which is more than twice the population of the next largest city. Lots of people, lots of cops, but not a "police state" by any means. Although there are areas in the Borough of Manhattan that rank with the most expensive places to live in the world, the vast majority of NYC residents live in the the outer boroughs, which are not all that expensive, and in many areas, significantly less expensive than the burbs. I live in the northern burbs, and the violent crime rate is almost non-existant. Many of the "near burbs" are as expensive, if not more expensive than NYC, so if the criminal element can't afford Astoria, Brownsville, and East New York, then they certainly can't afford New Rochelle, White Plains, Huntington, Wantagh, or New City. Unlike NYC, the gun laws in the northern burbs are not that strict. I carry a shotgun in the back of my truck and a legal concealed weapon. If the violent crime rate in the burbs has, in fact, escalated dramatically (and I generally don't think that it has), then I suspect that the reason has nothing to do with the gun laws.
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