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David Miller and the sycophants on council

Knife crime ignored while Toronto goes after legal gun owners



A week ago, Britain’s second most senior judge called for tougher sentences for knife crimes including that of simply carrying a dangerous blade. Sir Igor Judge said that crimes involving the use of knives were reaching “epidemic proportions” in Britain and that attacks where knives were the weapon of choice “have recently escalated”. According to figures from the Home Office for 2006, of 1,226 young people (under the age of 18) that were found guilty of carrying a knife, only 72 of them served any jail time.

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The Justice’s statement came just days before the high profile murder of Rob Knox. Knox, 18, an actor who had just finished a role in the upcoming Harry Potter movie, The Half Blood Prince, was stabbed to death outside of a London bar while attempting to protect his younger brother. Two other people were stabbed by the alleged attacker who is now in custody. If the use of knives as weapons is not rapidly escalating here, it sure appears that way. In the last two weeks, the following attacks took place in and around Toronto: · a Brampton man was arrested and charged with attempted murder for stabbing his 11-year-old son, · a 26-year-old student was stabbed in the stomach while waiting for a streetcar in a completely unprovoked attack, · a 36-year-old man was stabbed in a Scarborough apartment, · a 41-year-old man stabbed his wife, strangled his mother-in-law and set their apartment on fire before killing himself, · three people were stabbed in what was described as a domestic incident in Scarborough. These and other incidents of serious knife attacks would attract the attention of anyone who was concerned about violent crime. It comes as no surprise that the mayor of Toronto, David Miller, couldn’t care less about how many Torontonians end up becoming the victims of knife attacks. Barring exceptional circumstances such as the young woman who was randomly stabbed while waiting at a transit stop, these stabbings attract very little attention. Being stabbed with a knife just isn’t as sexy an issue as being shot with a gun although the end result is often the same. This week the Toronto mayor proposed certain measures to go after legal gun owners, or has he refers to them, “so called” legal gun owners. These proposals include using zoning bylaws to rid the city of gun clubs and companies that manufacture firearms. Gun clubs and firing ranges will be banned. Those people who are truly concerned about their safety will be glad to know that exceptions will be made for police and the military (as if the city could even pass a bylaw that would effectively disarm the military). Miller has enough sycophants on council to pass this measure. The mayor was in his glory when he learned that an innocent pedestrian was shot to death with a registered firearm. What he never mentions is that the alleged shooter had a permit to own a gun because he was a member of a gun club that was located outside of Toronto. Had Miller’s proposals been in effect at the time of that incident, it wouldn’t have affected anything. All these new measures will do is cost the city jobs and revenues and force legitimate gun owners, including Olympic athletes training for shooting events to go outside of Toronto’s boundaries to train. Both the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario have no real interest in taking steps against violent crime. Miller especially has more sympathy with the poor “at risk” youth who are often the cause of this crime than with the victims of violent crime. Many of these youths are visible minorities and the politically correct politicos would rather get shot themselves than be thought of as racists. To judge how seriously governments take violent crime, their silly ideas about guns and legal gun owners should be ignored. Instead, one has to focus on what, if any, solutions any of them propose to deal with the knife violence that is plaguing our urban areas. Until England’s lead is followed and real measures taken to deal with violent people that use guns, knives and other weapons, violent crime will continue to escalate. Oh to be in England! They get it.


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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com,  Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.

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