Unfortunately in the pasty few months we seem to have been experiencing a big surge in gangrelated gun violence. Almost evey day now we get reports of driveby sootings, targetted house shootings, and highway shootings.
What is worrisome here is that those are only the most flagrant and obvious incidents — there are score of incidents that do NOT get reported by the press.
Our very naive politicians at all levels — city, Province and Federalk — all mouth off about banning guns, banning the sale of guns as v9iable ways to reduce this violence.
In fact, what is needed is complete overhaul of our so-called justice system. Currently those apprehended for such violent acts are generally back out on bail within 24 hours.
So-called youth offenders (under 18) are protected by the infamous “youth act” which prevents them from being charged as adults and they can be out, free, with minimal jailtime.
There are almost NO consequences.
These gangs do not obtain their weapons legally or through gun shops, they obtain them through undergound methods. Those methods are in no way curtailed by bans of any sort.
Our native Indians have a brisk trade happening through their reservations. They trade anything and everything — cigarettes, drugs, weapons. They are not curtailed by Canadian laws, they run their own show.
No one dares to say this publicly — we are in bend-over-backwards and do-whatever-we-can mode to appease them for all the total BS we did to them back in the 1800s.
If the native indias hold a violent protest, they do not get arrested. No one will touch them with a ten foot pole.
So, if they are selling weapons, they will continue to do so and there is sweet bugger al anyone can do to stop them in the current snowflake environment.
I don’t really believe that the current spate of gun violence here is filtering in from the U.S. I think much of the gang violence comes from Jamaican youth who are known for their violent tendencies and for gang activities. This is another group that no one wants to touch with a ten foot pole.
The black card.
The police used to keep stats on who was committing most of the crimes, the results showed up as mostly blacks, soon after they were banned from keeping stats.
Get the picture? ;-)
I can’t see you. I can’t hear you. ………
