Canada: GUNS AND GANGS: Gun violence is on the rise

The Surrey Leader (British Columbia) ^ | 3/31/06 | Dan Ferguson

[CaptainCanada]

Culturally, Canada continues to become more like the U.S. every year.
That is not a bad thing, it is a fact.
Only idiots and Liberals would think that somehow we would be immune
to the negative aspects of that culture.

[Thombo2]

Indo-Canadian=Sikh?The media are soo imaginative.Why couldn't they have just said Sikh to begin with?BTW isn't Sikh a form of Hinduism?

[Fair Go]

Australia has had the same experience. A gun register and gun licencing has not stopped the flow of illegal guns into the community.

[fanfan]

Are you allowed to have guns?

[Fair Go]

Yes we can have guns provided we are a member of a shooting club such as the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia, register the guns and have them stored properly. I am a licensed shooter and there are no problems owning guns and having a licence if you are a law abiding citizen. However pistols and fully automatics are not allowed - unless you are a criminal and own the guns illegally.

[Stump]

If the Canadian gov runs true to the liberal line we'll learn next that it's due to the "easy" availability of guns in the US. The US needs to be disarmed next. When gun control does no good the demand is always for MORE gun control.

[fanfan]

Our government data banks seem to have been compromised, with gun owners being targeted.

Either that, or the employees are leaking the information.

I can't imagine why.

;-)

[Fair Go]

I have no knowledge of that happening here. However, police time is used checking that lawful gun owners have their weapons properly stored etc. In the meantime unlicensed people and criminals are obtaining guns through the black market and getting away with it. It is a system that wastes police resources that would be best spent targeting criminals. There was a good story in one of today's newspapers but it was not made available on the web.

[Tenacious 1]

[Kandola says there is often poor communication between immigrant parents and their Canadian-raised offspring. “The common complaint of our boys and young girls is that their parents do not listen to them. Some describe their communication with their parents as talking to a brick wall. Children growing in western culture do not take orders, they ask for logical discussion and logical answers rather than decisions being forced on them.”

VIRSA is campaigning for public education programs and early intervention to prevent more young men from joining the gun culture.]

Indeed this is odd. Teenagers saying that their parents don't understand them, don't listen to them and don't respect them, their right or their privacy? My God, how long has this been going on and what are we mortals to do about it? I believe this is pandemic. Every teenager I know has this disease. In fact, I think it to be hereditary as I too vaguely recall having bouts of the symptoms described above.

Seriously, what deranged group of villagers have taken the typical adolescent attitude and blamed it on a rise in gun violence. I think I might appreciate a return to blaming it on the guns themselves. I do not know which is worse, guns kill people or rebellious teenagers are attracted to guns, which kill people.