you+me/the internet = ?!? ([info]antimusic) wrote,
@ 2005-08-08 16:21:00
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now im not one to sound Gun Violence alarm, violent crime IS down in Toronto. But gun violence really seems to be getting out of hand. There have been at least 2(one - two) nights of multiple shootings so far this summer, and those two examples are only in the 8days of this month.

now 4 dead in 8 days, 5 dead in two weeks, that is cause for alarm to me.

im tempted to say that these shootings are associated to one another through gang violence etc, and another part - the conspiratotial part - is looking at the timing of these. what was the one event that all of a sudden gave rise to a dramatic increase in the shootings? Caribana. Now im not saying that this event itself caused the rise in gun violence - though as anyone from Toronto will know almost every year this event does usually have at least one shooting, which is always remarked upon by Torontonians - or anything ridiculous like that, but ive got a great conspiratorial hypothesis of which Caribana is a central event.

Since Caribana brings in well over 1million people to Toronto over the course of a weekend it would stand to reason that this would be an easy time to smuggle guns into the city. And the people coming in from the US have been earmarked by the police as the trouble makers of the crowd. so my question would be - and the crux of my hypothesis - are these guns coming up from to the city via gang members coming to Caribana from the US?


PARANOID QUALIFICATION OF STATEMENTS
I fear that the above statement will seem racist, but it is far from my intent. It is more an socio-economic background that will give rise to trafficing in guns more than anything.



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[info]mulletslayer
2005-08-08 02:38 pm UTC (link)
yer just agreeing with what they say on tv /shrug.

i heard this morning a corrilation between caribana and the gun thing.

granted tho i dont remember this last year, and really, i dont think there is a shortage of guns in the city available to people who want them. no different than drugs really - you know where to look, you can get em.

but i agree - this has me a little on edge as well. i dont like guns. i dont like violence. i dont like thinking about friends and people i love wandering the streets and randomly being gunned down.

one thing i havent heard, or read about, is if its just random shootings or if the people dying are people who might have reason to have someone want to kill them.

hell back in my hometown of 5000 people i knew a guy who bootlegged cigarettes - $4 a pack is a good deal when yer 16 and theyre selling for $6+, but he also sold guns. and prolly drugs too. cant escape it. the world is just full of people who wanna destroy themselves and other people.

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[info]antimusic
2005-08-08 04:18 pm UTC (link)
crazy, i honestly dont have any idea of where to begin to buy a gun, pot and a myriad of drugs: sure.

and truth be told, to me someone who sells guns in a small town is a different beast entirely from someone who does the same in the city.

and i havent been watching the local news as of late, so i dont really know. but in the past i do remember talk of the guns on toronto's streets heading north from the states.

im not sure though if there is a direct correlation or not, but the increase in gun crime right now is very troubling.

by the way if you are interested in the crime statistics for 2004 look here - http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050721/d050721a.htm

in light of the fact that all last year there were 103 homicides in Toronto, it makes this recent spate of gun murders all the more frightening and shocking.

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[info]antimusic
2005-08-08 04:41 pm UTC (link)
actually i realized that i misread the stats, the murder rate was 1.8/100,000. which works out to ~83 murders if i did my math right.

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