Boutros said:
How can you tell? And besides, there are gangs and drugs in Canada too. It's simply that gangs aren't all that impressive without guns. And that's because it's illegal. |
Gang crime is relatively new to Canada, primarily because we didn't build the moronic housing projects that were built in major US centers in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
The firearm related homicides in the United States are (mostly) centered around major US centers where between 75% and 90% of their murders are gun related or gang related. If you compare these cities to Canadian cities of similar size, and remove drug and gang related violence in both cities, the statistics become remarkably similar.
Even with our "tougher" gun laws, and gangs have moved out of Detroit (and similar North Eastern cities) into Toronto the number of murders using handguns has began to increase rapidly. Gangs and drugs are the problems, not the Redneck who wants to show off his AK-47 at the shooting range.
