2aguy
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People aren't being murdered by police in America......too many criminals refuse to obey the simplest of commands and they escalate simple arrests into lethal encounters....
Don't worry....Canada is going to understand this too well going forward......your criminals are learning that Canadians are a joke......they no longer fear or respect Canadian police or courtrooms.
Part of the problem is the proliferation of guns. Although Canada has some of the strictest gun laws in the Western world, with Bill C-21 poised to make them even stricter, getting a gun has never been easier for some segments of the population, namely criminals.
“It’s not hard. They’re everywhere,” says Dwayne Beckford from behind a glass partition.
Beckford is currently remanded on gun charges at Toronto East Detention Centre. In his late 30s, he has spent most of his adult life behind bars.
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“Everybody has them, like I said. It is scary how much there are, how easily accessible they are. Kids have them.”
Convicted of gun-related charges in the past, he recalls getting a gun was as easy as walking a dog. “They’d be cheaply bought, or just handed to you by guys in the neighbourhood.”
“Everybody has a gun these days. You talk to some guys that can easily give you what you want – to borrow, or hold, or buy.”
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“It’s like, ‘Yeah, here’s $80. You go do what you’ve got to do with it and come back.’ So they’re not even worried about getting caught with the weapon with X amount of bodies on it. That doesn’t even matter anymore,” he explains.
“I could find a gun in a couple of hours,” Wilson says, despite years outside of the game.
“We are seeing more firearms in the street, deadlier than we have seen before,” says Inspector Joe Matthews, the head of Toronto Police’s Guns and Gangs Unit.
In 2009, there were 259 shootings in Toronto resulting in 70 injuries and deaths. Last year, that number jumped to 462 shootings and 217 injuries and deaths. For the past five years, Toronto has witnessed more than 400 shootings a year.
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“The fact that innocent people are getting hit, children are getting hit. These are things we used to care about. There was a moral compass, even though we were extremely violent. There was a method to the madness. I can’t wrap my head around why they would allow it to get to the way that it’s getting, where now, the violence can spill over into their safe communities and zones.”
The end result is broken communities, broken families and lives lived in fear.
“You have people who have been terrified by people in their community, terrorized by people. So they’re afraid,” explains Fox outside the bar where her son was killed. “They’re afraid to say anything … But I mean, it has to stop somewhere. Right?”
The Gun Chase investigation: How guns end up on Toronto's streets | CityNews Toronto
In 2020, there were 462 shootings and 217 injuries and deaths. For the past five years, Toronto has witnessed more than 400 shootings a year.
toronto.citynews.ca
