Re: Toronto the Good
Much of Toronto's violence, as in other cities, is due to the drug culture and gang mentality. As I stated before, murders in the past were largely due to desperate people involved in botched robberies, or perhaps crimes of passion. As bad as that was, violence was targeted and compartmentalized. Now news sources often report of all out "shoot 'em ups' on busy mid-day streets. Innocent bystanders being hit. Frivolous executions for having "dissed" someone.
We pride ourselves on our relatively open border policy with the U.S. but with that openness comes an influx of handguns, legal in the States but not in Canada. I would never blame the U.S., the guns themselves, nor the border policing policy. The heart of the problem lies with the idiotic mentality by some that a gun equals respect and power. If the demand is there, the guns will follow. Somehow we as a society have become less tolerant, less polite while more hurried and desperate. Some feel the solution to that rage lies at the end of a gun barrel. I feel the solution is a change of attitude.
Yuri
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