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>>When combined with the original cite by Jan what this does for me is to confirm that the internet is more a propagandist's tit-for-tat vehicle than a source of factual information.
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>>Putting that aside... here in Toronto we've had 78 homocides this year (so far) and 53 of them by handguns AND THIS TRULY IS AN OUTRAGE AND NOT TOLERABLE.
>>We've had shootings near schools, a shooting at the funeral of a shooting victim and this shooting at Toronto's busiest pedestrian intersection on possibly the busiest pedestrian day of the year.
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>>Any "solution" seems far-fetched and likely ineffective, at least as offered so far. I personally don't have a clue how to stop the killings.
>>I'm pretty sure of one thing though... that the guns are being shipped in from the U.S. and I'm *guessing* that free trade made such shipping infinitely easier. As I said, I don't know how to address the issue (other than enforced stiff penalties for illegal posession/use of (hand)guns).
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>I cannot understand placing the blame on the US. The problem is crime, not where the guns come from. Honestly Jim, you can't blame America for everything. Bush yes, but not America in general :)

I didn't think I was blaming the U.S. We don't have a whole lot of handguns in Canada. They've always been tightly restricted.
My supposition is that free trade has made getting them across the border, by courier/mail, easier. I guess they could be coming from South Africa, though I doubt they advertise much here.
Until I was 35 I had never laid eyes on a handgun that wasn't in a policeman's holster or a Brinks guard's hand (they transport big money between banks). And when I finally did they were locked up in a collection of 30-40 guns.

I agree with you, by the way, that it is crime/criminals that is the problem. But I still have no idea how to get the guns out of the equation.