Lorne GUNTER makes this point in the National Post very well - so I will not repeat it.Yet today I heard Mayor David MILLER repeat for the umpteenth time that the problem is guns. That is simply not true - as supported by the facts. That he refuses to address the real problems that drive such heinous crimes - state-sponsored family breakdown, increased criminalization of men, increased substance abuse and gang activity - we will never successfully attack the real problems.
I would also argue that the indifference of local police to rising minor crimes - like car break-ins and theft - is part of the problem that drives citizens to own guns (despite the high regulatory burden and cost). As a friend of mine put it, more and more the police seem to practice "crime management" - that is triaging events into emergency, major and minor (with minor ignored or investigated by the victim with prompting by police via telephone) rather than prevention. And they wonder why the public is losing confidence in their ability.
Source: Statistics Canada Online Juristat. "Homicide in Canada" 85-002-X, Oct 2008.
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