Letter: Gun registry didn't stop shootings in Toronto

Letter: Gun registry didn't stop shootings in Toronto
Date: Aug 10, 2005 7:48 AM
PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star
DATE: 2005.08.10
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: A7
BYLINE: Bruce Mills
SOURCE: Windsor Star
WORD COUNT: 134

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Gun registry didn't stop shootings in Toronto

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Out of all the newspaper articles I read, and all the television news
broadcasts I watched regarding the latest rash of shootings in Toronto,
not one, not one, had the guts to mention the failure of the Firearms
Act to prevent any of these crimes from happening.

Almost $2 billion has been wasted on this federal Liberal government's
failed ideological exercise in social re-engineering, which could have
been spent on putting more police on the streets, instead of behind
desks pushing papers. Where is the "culture of safety" which Anne
McLellan promised us would result from this legislation? Where is the
outrage over that? Why is the media ignoring this most salient of facts?


BRUCE MILLS
Dundas, Ont.