POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Cops and social programs?
Please, both are pretty much a waste of time and money.
When in the history of the planet was a cop on the scene to
prevent a murder?
It never happens.
The problem here is unmistakable: the murder culture of
Jamaica (on the order of 30 times the murders of Toronto every year, and a
place of about the same population) has been imported along with the drugs and
guns which are behind much of this depravity.
Handguns are clearly coming into Ontario at record rates, as
are drugs.
And please tell me what "social programs" do for
violent young men who think it's just fine to go to a party with a loaded gun
in their pockets and whip it out at the first provocation?
Such events never occurred before the last couple of decades
in the peacefulness of Toronto, but they have been matter-of-fact in Detroit,
New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta, and other places for time immemorial.
It really is not poverty at work here. We see young drug
dealers living a high life, driving costly cars, wearing gold jewelry, carrying
very expensive pistols. Men demanding things their education and skills could
never provide.
Does anyone believe they would trade that for a menial-labor
job or work as an amateur basketball coach?
