Toronto Star ＂expert＂ says lawful gun owners are good at killing people
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Summary
As gun violence in Toronto continues to mount, this past weekend gave us a particularly stark example of how bad things are. Over a 72-hour period, 17 people were injured or shot in 14 separate shootings. The culprit, of course, is gang violence. This is the cause of most inner-city violence, in particular firearms violence. Not something that can be blamed on law-abiding, legal gun owners.
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As gun violence in Toronto continues to mount, this past weekend gave us a particularly stark
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example of how bad things are. Over a 72-hour period, 17 people were injured or shot in 14
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separate shootings. The culprit, of course, is gang violence. We know this. This is the cause
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of most inner-city violence, in particular firearms violence, not something that can be blamed on
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law-abiding legal gun owners. But that would appear to be news to the gun control advocates insisting
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on blaming people like me and other Canadians who lawfully and safely hold firearms as being the
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problem when it comes to gun crime. The Toronto Star ran a story about this, about the opportunities
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that it says are missed in making the city safer. Quoted in this article is Wendy Sukiye, the president
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of the Coalition for Gun Control and a professor at Ryerson University. She talked about the 17
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people being injured and says it's a big number, but notes that we are lucky that the people doing
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the shooting were not better shooters, but that should not make us complacent in terms of the
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problem of the proliferation of firearms. It was an odd thing to say, to talk about being grateful that
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those involved weren't better shooters. Well, Ms. Sukiye was only setting the stage for the real
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smackdown of her point, or what she thinks is that anyway, which is blaming gun owners for the
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problems. Let me quote directly from the article. Sukiye, the Coalition for Gun Control president,
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said that legal gun owners tend to be more effective in killing people because they spend time at target
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practice or hunting. Quote, one of the terrible ironies is that when you see the proliferation of
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guns often associated with gang violence, you have lots of shootings, but fewer people are killed,
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perhaps because they don't spend hours and hours at the shooting range, unquote, she said.
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So the point, if you can try to find one in there, is that with law-abiding gun owners,
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you don't have shootings, but if you did, they would be better at killing people. But she concedes in
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there that the gang issues are the ones causing the problems. The gang incidents are the ones that
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aren't involving legal firearms. So this is, pardon the pun, an assault on law-abiding gun owners,
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saying that because someone is more adept at handling their firearm, they are somehow better
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at killing people, but ignoring the fact that that isn't happening, that law-abiding, lawful gun owners
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are not the ones killing people. They're not the ones that are causing problems. They're not the ones
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that are taking lives. This is not just some nutty person spouting off on the internet. This woman
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is the one that the media goes to as being the de facto voice, the expert opinion on gun stories
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as they arise in Canada. She's been called upon to testify before Parliament. Wendy Sukiye is
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everywhere there is a microphone when it comes to a gun story, and the media and the government
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continue to give her this platform. But this quote reveals the disdain and dishonesty she has
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when it comes to the firearms owning community in Canada. That because I might have better aim than
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a gang shooter, I am somehow going to be more likely to kill someone. That's the inference she's
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making there, and it is just plain wrong. The stats time and time again reveal that law-abiding gun
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owners are statistically safer than even the unarmed general population. And that's because of the daily
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background checks that the Canadian firearms program subjects gun owners to. That's because
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of the background checks through which gun owners have gone to get their license. There is no reason
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to fear those who are carrying a possession and acquisition license in Canada, and anyone who says
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otherwise is lying to Canadians. The mainstream media may not be speaking the truth when it comes to gun
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