CRIMINALS ‘LAUGHING’ AT MARTIN’S PLAN . . . During a campaign stop in Toronto, Canada’s Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Thursday that his party would ban handguns outright. The Liberal Party leader says his plan would be used to curb violence in cities, but critics say the only thing it will accomplish is stripping law-abiding citizens of their rights at the expense of taxpayers. "This man goes into the ghetto and says he wants to ban guns—they are laughing at him," said a Toronto parent whose son was killed in a violence-torn section of the city. Under the ban, only...