[rellimpank]

---complete fantasy and misinformation---

[DJ Taylor]

How odd! There was not one mention of the fact that Toronto's gun related killings are almost entirely as a result of Jamaican gang activity. Also not mentioned is that these gangs are the Jamaicans that Canadian liberals imported and have kept dependent on government handouts in order to expand the Canadian liberal voting constituency.

[Doogle]

"The majority of those guns come from over the border," she says. "And the ones that are reported as legally registered in Canada may also be manufactured in the U.S."

...so a hood is a hood no matter where he gets a gun. and it don't matter if the "majority" of guns used in a CRIME came from Bermuda...????...Next this bunch of "Scholars" will be pointing out if the criminal fired the weapon to the north he must have gotten the weapon from the US,and if he fires to the south,it's a clear indication it was purchased or stolen from Alaska

Doogle

[Steel Wolf]

the latest Toronto police figures — obtained through a Freedom of Information request — show that 52 per cent of handguns seized as "potential crime weapons" in 2004 came from the United States.

Let me know when they start rounding up potential prostitutes, potential wife beaters, and potential drunk drivers. Then I'll know they're serious about crime.

[MediaAnalyst]

"52 people have died from gunfire in the city this year. It's a far lower total than the more than 1,400 killed in New York"

...and so the Canadian MSM gets on the wagon of false and misleading information. If you scoot over to today's New York Times...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/31/nyregion/31crime.html?hp&ex=1136091600&en=10df13f49ff8773a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

...you will see that New York will likely come in at under 550 total murders this year, nothing like 1400, which is probably a very old number (to be comparing apples to apples, one would also have to add people killed in gun accidents to New York's number, but then one would also have to exclude people murdered without the use of guns, which is probably a larger number).

It also needs to be noted that New York is over 3 times as populous as Toronto, and would be expected to have higher crime numbers, even if all other things were equal. When you use the correct numbers, adjusted for population, New York is still several times higher than Canada, but the trend lines have been clearly converging over the past 10 years.

The bottom line is that, with the infusion of, how do you say, people of other cultures, Canada's violent crime rate is starting to soar, and they can try as hard as they want to blame us, but we're too busy getting our house in order down here (certainly in New York) to be concerned with their ranting.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Wendy Cukier,"

Appropriate name considering the subject.

[VeniVidiVici]

From the article:

and since a series of laws were tightened, murders with rifles and shotguns have plummeted from 131 in 1989 to 32 in 2003.

Interesting statement since the article was almost entirely concerned about handguns, and yet slipped in unnoticed was this statement that murders with rifles and shotguns fell.

[George Smiley]

"potential crime weapons"

Eric Blair would be proud.

[George Smiley]

"potential crime weapons"

Eric Blair would be proud.

Funny things happen when you mistype HREF.

[2harddrive]

Canadian anti-gunners are so stupid...that's why they pronounce it CanaDUH!

[Simo Hayha]

Obviously, we should begin dating things before and after the advent of the gun. Which was yesterday, based on this article.