The Canadian website the National Post had a heartening article yesterday challenging Toronto Mayor David Miller's absurd and ever-expanding anti-gun positions. The editors waste no time getting to the point in a cutting fashion:
He either completely misunderstands the causes of crime in his city --or, worse, he is cynically redirecting public anger from criminals to law-abiding gun collectors and target shooters. Whichever the case, Torontonians ought to be outraged.
The editors of the Post have a clear and sober view of the true causes of crime and the poor efficacy of gun control that is refreshing from a Canadian publication, even a conservative one. They go on to illustrate the failure of municipal gun bans:
Municipal gun control is useless. In cities where handguns are banned or severely restricted --Chicago, Washington, London, Tokyo and others -- gun crimes remain common. As they do in Toronto, criminals in these cities merely go underground, or to a neighbouring jurisdiction, and buy an illegal weapon.
Don't confuse that as a call for broader gun control initiatives. The post goes on to illustrate the faults and failures of nationwide bans as well:
Since then (the UK handgun ban), though, New Scotland Yard and the Home Office estimate that the inventory of illegal handguns in Britain has expanded by three million. Gun crime has nearly doubled. And many cities now have more gun crime than comparable U. S. cities.
The editors end with a level headed call for more intense policing of high crime areas, as seen in NYC. Increases in law enforcement and strict prosecution for gun crimes has been a rallying cry from the US gun-rights crowd for quite some time, but as the Post says, legal gun-owners have become "convenient whipping boys, knowing that in our urbanized culture most voters cannot understand the allure of shooting sports."
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