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Toronto Restricts Guns and Sees Knife Crime Increase.
By arnisador - Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:49 GMT
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On the knife's edge
As Toronto cops crack down on guns, thugs turn to their weapon of second choice
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In Toronto and its suburbs, the ease with which you can purchase a knife attracts scant attention. Instead, the city is so consumed with combatting gun crime that Mayor David Miller and City Council will vote this month on the extraordinary step of evicting legal gun clubs from publicly owned locations such as Union Station, where a gun club has been housed since 1921.
While homicide detectives and policy-makers say firearms are still the biggest scourge on Toronto's streets, the attention, time and money dedicated in the past few years to cracking down on gun crime has made it tougher for aspiring criminals to obtain their weapon of choice.
That means they are unsheathing their weapons of second choice - kitchen knives, jackknives, hunting knives and, if they can get them, illegal switchblades and butterfly knives. "All those things we're doing to decrease firearm weapons is cutting down the availability of these guns," says Staff Inspector Brian Raybould, the head of the Toronto police homicide squad. "At the same time, criminals who choose to arm themselves have to find some way to do it. If firearms aren't available, what's the next best thing? Knives, sharp-edged weapons."
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By arnisador - Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:49 GMT
Originally Posted at: FMATalk
====================
Seen on MT:
On the knife's edge
As Toronto cops crack down on guns, thugs turn to their weapon of second choice
Quote:
In Toronto and its suburbs, the ease with which you can purchase a knife attracts scant attention. Instead, the city is so consumed with combatting gun crime that Mayor David Miller and City Council will vote this month on the extraordinary step of evicting legal gun clubs from publicly owned locations such as Union Station, where a gun club has been housed since 1921.
While homicide detectives and policy-makers say firearms are still the biggest scourge on Toronto's streets, the attention, time and money dedicated in the past few years to cracking down on gun crime has made it tougher for aspiring criminals to obtain their weapon of choice.
That means they are unsheathing their weapons of second choice - kitchen knives, jackknives, hunting knives and, if they can get them, illegal switchblades and butterfly knives. "All those things we're doing to decrease firearm weapons is cutting down the availability of these guns," says Staff Inspector Brian Raybould, the head of the Toronto police homicide squad. "At the same time, criminals who choose to arm themselves have to find some way to do it. If firearms aren't available, what's the next best thing? Knives, sharp-edged weapons."
Read More...
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