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El Salvador has gun control and their rate is 40.29.

No doubt there are also countries with gun control and very few murders.

Therefore gun control has not been proven to be the determining factor in lowering gun violence.

Saying no one “needs” a gun brings us nothing that will solve crime, but everything that has to do with blaming law abiding business people and citizens who will never shoot anyone with the guns, something the Mayor and City Hall do not understand.

My NEWSTALK1010 radio producer Becky Coles and her father took our morning host John Moore to a gun range. They talked about it on air. John found it interesting, but he isn’t inclined to own a gun.

But a statement like the one the mayor made, and the vote by City Hall – overwhelmingly in favor of banning gun sales in the city – casts them as bad people; potential shooters of innocent people.

Tory insists City Hall is not demonizing lawful gun owners, but if they claim taking guns away from good people will lower the violence, what are they saying? Who are they blaming?

The Danforth shooter didn’t use a gun sold in a legal store in Toronto. We could ban the stores and restrict legal owners and not one thing would change.

Guns would come in illegally the same way they do now.

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The same criminals who traffic in and use guns would still do so.

What would I do?

Caught with an illegal gun – ten years in prison, no parole.

Use a gun in the commission of a crime or have a gun on your person while committing a crime, life in prison, no parole.

I would be hardcore against guns and crime.

Will politicians move to do that? Not so far.

Can I guarantee that would stop the violence? No, but it would at least show we are more serious about criminals who use guns than we are about everyone else.

City Hall could lobby the province and the Feds for stronger laws and sentencing but they are too busy trumpeting Toronto as a sanctuary city, neutering police and setting up heroin shooting galleries.

So go ahead, attack honest citizens and put stores out of business.

But when the next shooting takes place, what then?