Toronto handgun ban supported

[styky]

Toronto handgun ban supported

By Don Peat ,City Hall Bureau Chief

First posted: Saturday, June 30, 2012 02:33 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, June 30, 2012 07:48 PM EDT
TORONTO - City politicians aren’t shooting blanks when it comes to a Toronto handgun ban.

A Forum Research poll conducted this week and provided exclusively to the Sun shows strong support among Toronto residents for a city handgun ban and a laundry list of other hot topics that have popped up over the last few weeks.

According to the poll of 1,212 residents, Torontonians also like mandatory bike helmets for adults, free parking for vets, and funding for the High Park Zoo and Riverdale Farm.

But nothing blows away the numbers like the handgun ban question.

A stunning 75% of those polled agreed the city should ban handguns while only 18% disagreed with the idea.

“75% (in favour of a handgun ban) this is about as unanimous an opinion as you’re going to get in this city,” Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff told the Sun Friday............................http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/30/to ... -supported

[styky]

I would think that according to their own statistics they would first be banning knives

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/statistics/ytd_stats.php

[RedDog]

There's no doubt the Jamaican and muslim youth are lining up as we speak to turn in their illegal and unregistered handguns, suddenly seeing the light and turning a new leaf ready to play baseball and take swimming lessons.

[WestViking]

A stunning 75% of those polled agreed the city should ban handguns while only 18% disagreed with the idea.

I would venture that 75% of those polled do not own a handgun, so they are not affected by a ban. My guess is that they think a handgun ban will make the city safer and they are wrong. The sad thing is that when people are still injured and killed by people using banned handguns, these twits will not admit they are wrong and repeal the ban. Many people suffer terminal stupidity.

[nigelf]

Instead of banning handguns they should be strongly pushing concealed carry for all mentally fit residents. The everyday people that have to live there will take care of the criminal gangs in no time flat.

[Lee Enfield]

There's no doubt the Jamaican and muslim youth are lining up as we speak to turn in their illegal and unregistered handguns, suddenly seeing the light and turning a new leaf ready to play baseball and take swimming lessons.

Collectors and shooters who use gun ranges will have to turn in their handguns. These are the only people legally allowed to own them now except for police etc. When was the last time a gun collector or target shooter shot up the Toronto Eaton Center?

Another knee-jerk emotional reaction by liberals with no basis in reality.

[WestViking]

The city of Toronto does not have the constitutional authority to ban handguns or to otherwise infringe on a citizen's property rights. A handgun ban ban would have to come under provincial law, and even then would be subject to Charter section 15 (equality before and under the law).

[Brown envelope]

There's no doubt the Jamaican and muslim youth are lining up as we speak to turn in their illegal and unregistered handguns, suddenly seeing the light and turning a new leaf ready to play baseball and take swimming lessons.

Collectors and shooters who use gun ranges will have to turn in their handguns. These are the only people legally allowed to own them now except for police etc. When was the last time a gun collector or target shooter shot up the Toronto Eaton Center?

Another knee-jerk emotional reaction by liberals with no basis in reality.

[Edward Kennedy]

Shite for brains intolerant lefturds on parade.

I would favor a handgun ban if the police also accepted being disarmed.

Yeah, turd city, domain of the bigotted and intolerant hoplophobes.

[Red Green]

I doubt that Canadians will ever support an armed populace; they've been herded as sheep for far too long.

[styky]

I doubt that Canadians will ever support an armed populace; they've been herded as sheep for far too long.

Becoming more like lemmings on a cliff tour

[Edward Kennedy]

I doubt that Canadians will ever support an armed populace; they've been herded as sheep for far too long.

Becoming more like lemmings on a cliff tour

Too bad the lefturd lemmings would not hurl themselves off cliffs everywhere.

[Smaug]

A better idea would be to ban Toronto's. Is it too late to bargain Toronto away in the peace treaty from the 1812?

[RedDog]

I assume Toronto is currently burning to the ground and every police car in town is upside down smashed given the soccer slaughter of the Italians earlier today.

[Canadaguy]

I'd start by banning welfare so they would be at work and not doing nothing so they most likely won't get in trouble.