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 They Need Tougher Gun Laws 
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 Post subject: They Need Tougher Gun Laws
PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:10 am 
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I guess they need tougher gun laws in Canada.

Boxing Day horror downtown
Dec. 26, 2005. 09:55 PM
JEN GERSON
STAFF REPORTER

Shots rang out on busy Toronto streets crowded with Boxing Day shoppers today, killing one person and wounding seven others.

The first shots were apparently fired around 5:30 p.m. from a vehicle driving north on Yonge St. near Gerrard St., severely wounding one woman in the head. She was in the doorway of a Foot Locker store.

Police received calls within minutes about other shooting victims — including one in the Delta Chelsea hotel, one at a Pizza Pizza near Yonge and Gould St., a second person in the doorway of the Foot Locker and one at a Red Lobster restaurant.

Police have two men in custody in connection with the shootings. They were apprehended at the Castle Frank subway station. At least one firearm was seized, police said.

Police did not immediately say if the victims were targeted or if they were injured by random gunfire.

The woman with the head wound who was shot at the Foot Locker has died. Two of the others shot are in critical condition at St. Michael’s hospital. One victim walked into Mt. Sinai hospital.

The wounded reportedly include a 16-year-old boy, and others appeared to be in their late teens or early twenties. One of the victims who suffered a minor injury was an off-duty police officer.

Wendy Perry and her husband were staying at the Delta Chelsea hotel when the violence erupted.

They could see the area streets from the balcony of their hotel room.

She said she heard a number of shots go off and the sound of a car squealing away.

"We saw people racing out of stores," she said. "I thought it was fireworks."

One witness, a man in his twenties who would only identify himself as Vikram, said he saw two men in a BMW leaning out the windows and firing guns.

“People were screaming,” he said. “Everywhere in the shop they were down on the floor.”

An employee with Sam the Record Man said people were lying out in the street and “not doing too well.”

Holiday shoppers were just wrapping up the last of their Boxing Day purchases when the violence erupted.

Police received several calls asking for help controlling the frightened shoppers crowded into nearby stores such as Sam the Record Man, HMV and Future Shop.

After the shootings, much of the normally bustling shopping district around the Eaton Centre was blocked off with police tape.

Two male suspects, including a teenager, were arrested soon after at a subway station a short distance from the scene, and at least one firearm was seized, police said.

Police Chief Bill Blair said two men who were standing on the street opened fire for reasons that were not immediately clear. He did not say if the two were shooting at each other or targeting people in the crowd.

Blair said police would be reviewing video surveillance tapes from cameras in the area to piece together what happened.

News of the shootings angered Mayor David Miller, who called it ``a brazen act of senseless violence.”

The busy downtown area, popular with tourists, was also the site of two other shootings this year.

On a Saturday night in late July, a man was fatally shot in a crowd of about 1,000 people at Dundas Square despite a heavy police presence.

On a Sunday afternoon in April, three people — including two bystanders — were wounded after a gunman opened fire on another man on the same stretch of street where today's shootings occurred.

There have been 78 murders in Toronto this year, including a record 52 by gunfire. The city set a record for murders in 1991, with 88.

With files from Canadian Press

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 Post subject: They are getting their pay off
PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:48 pm 
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Well, who was right?

Socialists argued that stricter laws prohibiting private firearm ownership would drastically reduce violent crime.

A pro-independence sector argued that gun laws don't regulate criminal activity and therefore would have little affect on crime, except perhaps to make criminal's actions easier.

We can all say "I told you so".

And what will they do about this now? As usual they say nothing about bringing the guilty to justice or reforming the court system that keeps letting these creeps out on the street again and again. Instead, they vow to continue their course of taking away the rights of everyone who DIDN'T do it, while maintaining a soft-on-crime stance in the courts to ensure that these poor, misunderstood felons are greeted with open arms, support, and therapy. Hey, it's even America's fault ... anyone's fault but the criminals.


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