Our politicians in Toronto, Ontario, and Canada are crying out for guns to be banned, and for more afterschool programs. Because that has all worked so well so far, hasn't it?

I've written before about the audacity of the gangs in Toronto, and I was called many names. Cunt. Racist. Bitch. Bigot. Why? Because I dared to say the b-word. Black. C'mon people. The gangs are predominantly black. The kids are black, of Jamaican descent for the most part, they come from broken homes, and thug culture is cool. Don't you watch MTV? It's sexy to be a gangsta. Black is not a slur - it's a description. But it's the holiest of holies in a country like Canada - in a city like Toronto. You musn't ever indicate that race or culture has anything to do with the negative actions of another. Ever.

Islamic terrorists are "insurgents" or "freedom fighters." Black gang-bangers are "disadvantaged youth" who have been "marginalized by society." Did anyone ever stop to think that they might be marginalized because they are dangerous? Personally, I do not marginalize the woman who sits next to me at the office (she is both black and Muslim, for the record). There is no reason to. She is hard working, whip smart, friendly, not a danger to anyone, and she and her husband have raised their children with a sense of love and responsibility. Oh, and did I mention that they live just outside the "danger zone" in northwest Toronto? The threat is at their door. Their daughters run the risk every day of becoming pregnant; their son runs the risk of winding up in a gang. So why haven't they? Maybe because they have a bit more self-respect, and a bit more community respect.

The Jamaican community is broken. There are no fathers. Just endless children, and mothers who have run out of time, money and patience to look after them. They come to Canada as immigrants and refugees, searching for a better life. But they have been encouraged onto welfare, encouraged to hold on to the life they had in the Islands because it is their "culture", and by doing so they have not gained that better life. They have maintained the status quo - only it just happens to be colder here. (see Lost Budgie's post from the beginning of December for more on this. he also uses the b-word. there's more here. Also, North American Patriot here and here)

So what's the solution? Paul Martin wants to ban guns. It's a bullshit idea he pulled out of nowhere in order to win the upcoming election. And right now Toronto is so scared, it's probably going to work. For the election, I mean - not the problem. Making something illegal that is already illegal (shooting someone with intent to rob or murder is illegal, you know, not that the sentencing reflects it) is hardly going to help. It's redundant, like so many of our erstwhile government's policies.

Banning immigration won't help, either. Neither will being overly elitist about it, and saying we will or won't accept so-and-so. Certainly, if you've committed a crime in your home country, you should not be permitted in. But the four-year-old who accompanies his mother here from Jamaica probably won't have committed a crime. No, that won't happen till he's at least 12. So let's forget that idea. Closing the borders to immigration won't solve it.

What about closing the borders to Americans? After all, they are the source of all evil - a hellmouth, if you will - and they shouldn't be allowed to export their crime culture to Canada. Crime culture? You mean, it's their culture?? Well then, shouldn't it be embraced? Celebrated? Shouldn't we hold a parade for it?

Okay, sorry sorry, I went off on a tangent there...

Anyway, it's not the Americans. Their culture of crime is laregely due to immigration as well, but like us, it makes no sense for them to close the doors. Besides, the reports say that 50% of the guns are coming in from the U.S., but what isn't being reported is whether or not they are being carried over in the trunks and pockets of Canadians. It might be worth looking into.

Toronto is falling apart. There have been 52 shooting related deaths so far this year ("Shooting related deaths" is another way for the politically correct press to mess with your emotions. The correct term is MURDERS). The most recent one was on Boxing Day, on a busy street full of shoppers looking for a bargain. A teenage girl, 15-year-old Jane Creba was crossing the street between shops, and was gunned down like an animal. This Globe & Mail article makes it sound like it was her fault for being there, for crossing the street. Like she was flighty and stupid and should have known better.

Jane Creba, the bright and athletic 15-year-old killed in the Boxing Day shootings on Yonge Street, wandered into the midst of the gunfire that suddenly erupted.

She was shopping with her 18-year-old sister, Alison, on the east side of the street, near Sam the Record Man, when she decided to skip across to the other side where the Foot Locker sporting goods store is located.

She walked smack into the crossfire of the gun battle, The Globe and Mail has learned, and took one bullet to the upper torso.

Gosh, didn't her mother teach her to look both ways before crossing the street, to make sure there are no wayward cabbies or stray bullets coming? Anyway, if you read on, you'll see that her family were not up to talking to the press, which is a major no-no as far as the Globe is concerened, which might explain their contempt toward the victim.

My favorite part is near the end of the article.

Mr. Thompson, who remains in custody until his next court appearance, was released just before Christmas from Maplehurst prison near Milton, Ont.

He had served 30 days for his role in a convenience-store robbery.

For most of the past two years he had been staying with his cousin, Marsha Grant, 27, who has two young children and lives in a public housing complex in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood.

Mr. Thompson, the father of a one-year-old boy, had been working at a nearby restaurant as a chef.

Ms. Grant said she was shocked to learn that he was caught up in the events on Yonge Street on Boxing Day, but she strongly doubts that he was the shooter.

"Andre would not be so stupid as to fire a gun into a crowd like that," she said.

Not into a crowd! Directly into an enemy in a secluded alley, maybe, but not into a crowd!

Jane, I am sorry that you were murdered on Boxing Day. I am sorry for your family. I'm sorry that one of them responsible for your death was already a know violent offender, and that they let him out into society. I'm sorry that the Globe & Mail thinks you're a twit. You were not in the wrong place at the wrong time - you were shopping. You were good for Toronto's economy. I hope you had a nice Christmas Day. And I'm sorry that our city and our government is so foolish as to think that basketball is going to bring you back, or keep this from happening again. Bless you.