| you+me/the internet = ?!? ( @ 2005-08-08 16:21:00 |
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.
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.