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There was no hug-a-thug talk about the root causes of violence.

There was no bleeding-heart, Band-Aid solutions that yet again push for a handgun ban — the same kind of ban we heard about during the David Miller years and which really targets innocent handgun owners and sports shooters, not the criminal element.

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There was no deferring to political correctness and blaming systemic racism and poverty for the epidemic of gun violence in Toronto.

There was no pandering to anti-white activist and angry professional protester Desmond Cole and his cabal of police-hating Black Lives Matter folk.

Nope. Finally, the residents of Toronto heard some tough love from Premier Doug Ford, the kind of tough love that is sorely needed right about now in this city.

We need measures that allow us to take back our city because it is, quite frankly, out of control.

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“We’re coming after you. We’re going to catch you and you’re going to end up in jail … If I were you, I’d think twice before you pull out a gun because you’re going to get caught,” Ford said Thursday while announcing $25 million in new funding for Toronto to fight gangs and guns.