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My good friend Joel is still scratching his head about Ontario’s legislators and their agenda to ban legal handguns.

He posted this excellent commentary about how barking up the wrong tree over and over again won’t change anything for the better…EVER!

So if Mayor Moron could wave a magic wand tomorrow and strip legal owners of all their guns, what is that going to improve when large sections of the city are still poor, still plagued by gangs and the criminals don’t turn over their guns?

In his previous post, he had a video which I offer to you here about the Greater Toronto Area gang problem.

Note that poverty is the excuse mentioned in that video for drugs and gang proliferation.  Notice that the word “cool” gets dropped along the way too.

Why even try if you can sell drugs and buy nice shit without having to show up from 9 to 5?  No reason to walk the straight and narrow if you get good benefits and no punishment.

Well, there’s always gang shootings, but they’re ready for that, right?  They be gangstas…

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Bwaahahahahaha. Those darn spoons! Leave Rosie alone!

But all kidding aside, guns were seized by law enforcement, big criminal organisation taken down.

Guns…and stuff…

“Quite frankly, we are shocked by the extent of this criminal enterprise that we have uncovered in this investigation,” Blair told a news conference a few hours after the raids Thursday. “It is most certainly a source of a vast number of the illegal handguns that have been making their way onto the streets of Toronto that have caused so much of the death and destruction and fear in our communities. And we believe that by shutting down this network, we have today stemmed a fairly significant source of guns coming into our community.”

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In the initial investigation stemming from the tip about the smuggled handguns, 35 weapons were seized. Of those, Blair said 24 have been linked to the original cache of weapons smuggled into Canada in 2006. At the same time, police also seized 59 kilograms of methamphetamine, 400,000 ecstasy tablets, three kilograms of cocaine, 60 kilograms of marijuana and a large quantity of cash.

On April 29, a further drug seizure at an industrial complex in Mississauga, Ont., netted an equally “astounding quantity of drugs” with an estimated street value of more than $160 million, Blair said.

^{(Emphasis added by me)}

…yeah. Stuff.

Ok, I feel like saying something on this subject. I saw a tv commercial years ago, the subject was drugs and the things YOU support when you use drugs. You had young adults looking into the camera, saying things like “I financed the killing of a judge in Colombia”. That type of thing.

At the time, I didn’t agree, although I did understand there was a correlation between buying drugs here and the drug cartels in foreign countries.

Today, my money is a political tool.  I chose businesses which fit my needs and I stay away from businesses I don’t approve.

I feel good about that.

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These murders angered police, who went through great lengths to stress the victims’ innocence. “These two victims are not at all known to the Toronto police or any other police agency in Canada,” Detective Sergeant Gary Giroux told a news conference several hours after the slayings.

“And certainly, based on the limited amount of information that I have, they are not, and never have been, living any kind of a high-risk criminal lifestyle whatsoever.”

The shooting is yet another cautionary tale that likely involves handguns and innocent victims.

Very few things are random in life.  Not knowing the motive doesn’t mean this was random.  From what I can tell from the article, this was a well executed attack on civilians who never had a chance.

Had they been armed, it doesn’t seem that it would have made much of a difference in this case.

Never underestimate the motivated assassin.

The city of Montreal announced a new anti-gang squad recently.  Hopefully, the gang problems in Canada will not fuel the anti-gun agendas of politicians (but it will).

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This doesn’t look good for Canada because our neighbors to the south can’t do it.

And they have it in writing.

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Seven people have been killed and 10 injured in central Tokyo by a “hysterical” man who ploughed a van into a crowd of shoppers saying he was “tired of life” and began slashing people with a hunting knife.

The man, identified by police as Tomohiro Kato, 25, mowed down three people at a busy intersection in Akihabara, a shopping and entertainment district, before leaping from his rented van and stabbing at least 15 victims in the apparently premeditated attack.

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In January, a 16-year-old boy carrying a pair of kitchen knives slashed his way through a crowded Tokyo street, badly injuring two people.

“I wanted to kill everybody. I did not care who they were,” he told police afterwards.

In March, Masahiro Kanagawa, 24, went on a stabbing spree at a rural railway station that left one person dead and seven wounded.

Yesterday’s attack happened on the anniversary of an attack on 8 June 2001, in which Mamoru Takuma stabbed to death eight children at a primary school in Osaka.

When crazy human beings decide to kill at random but they can’t find a gun, they improvise…

Now I’m not trying to be crass or make light of all this, but Kimveer Gil killed ONE person.

The weapon is not important. It’s the motivation of the person behind the weapon which is dangerous.

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21 seconds into this video I put on Youtube, you can see Corey Glass.  I heard his story a while back.  I wanted him out of Canada back then.  Still do today.

I know who he is, I know what he did and then refused to do.  I also know what he’s been feeding the mass medias.

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I could have sworn that I mentioned Corey Glass on this blog in the past. But a quick search tells me I did not.

Oh well. American-born Corey Glass is a moron. He deserted when his National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq, and unlucky for him, Jimmy Carter isn’t around to give him a Presidential pardon when he reenters the US of A.

No matter what he does next, it won’t be here in Canada, that’s for sure.

TORONTO - Corey Glass, a former U.S. National Guardsman who deserted to Canada in 2006 to avoid serving in Iraq, was told Wednesday that his application to stay in Canada has been rejected.

A spokesperson for Citizenship and Immigration Canada confirmed Glass has been ordered to leave the country.

At a Toronto news conference, Glass pleaded with the federal government to support his cause.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Time’s awaisting’… Start packing. Chop chop!

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Listen up people:  As much as it pains me to support a communist dictatorship, you’re better off going to CUBA than Mexico.

A Canadian tourist wounded as her boyfriend was shot and killed in a Mexican resort city is still in Mexico and receiving consular service, Foreign Affairs officials told CBC News on Monday. Bouabal Bounthavorn, 29, was shot three times in the head by a lone gunman Thursday night in his room at Hotel Riu in Cabo San Lucas, according to police.

His girlfriend, 24-year-old Masha Heikali of Burnaby, B.C., was shot in the foot, authorities said. Foreign Affairs on Monday would not give any more information on her whereabouts or condition, citing the Privacy Act.

The Canadian Press reported Monday that Mexican police have placed Heikali in protective custody.

State police commander Enrique Wuilar said authorities have no leads or motive in the killing.

Look, we can spin this all day, but a democracy like Mexico is NOT the same as our democracy.  Law and order rules over here, not so much over there.

And even if you ignore the wallet-friendly prices Cuba is offering, you can still acknowledge that Cuba has an excellent record on keeping tourists safe.

So Mexico is out if you ask me.  I know they’re part of NAFTA and we should be working with them, but Mexico fails us every year.  It fails the US every year.  Nuff said.

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UPDATE:  Boomer’s new home is Granby Zoo.  Congrats on a new home away from Kraft Dinner and unedible daughters…

An Ontario man is demanding that a lion cub recaptured near Maniwaki, Que., early Thursday morning after an intensive police search be returned to him.

Dennis Day, who runs an exotic animal business about 100 kilometres west of Ottawa, told CBC News Thursday that Boomer the lion was raised in his home and still belongs to him.

The seven-month-old, 70 kilogram male African lion escaped from the Kitigan Zibi Algonquin First Nation reserve near Maniwaki Tuesday evening after being taken out for a walk, but was captured by Kitigan Zibi and Quebec provincial police officers early Thursday morning. Police and Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources officials announced Thursday that the animal is to be sent to the Granby Zoo, east of Montreal.

Day said he would not let that happen. “Boomer’s not going to a zoo. They’ve got to come through me before they do that,” he said, adding that he has talked to a lawyer about the situation. “I still own this cat. This cat was only being babysat.”

So Boomer was caught. The daughter is still alive and everybody’s happy.

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