[Jeff Higgins]

Are we any better at facing our gang and/or violent crime problems than Canada? They have gone down the garden path of gun control; we would be there as well if it were not for our 2nd Amendment and some strong citizens' oversight. Other than that we are really no different. Neither country has the backbone left to deal decisively with miscreants like this. Witness our recent little Tookis saga - twelve years to dispose of this piece of trash, and all the bleeding hearts whining when we did. Citizens of both countries are doomed to live among such violent people until they push their respective governments to deal with the problem. At least here in the U.S. we still have the option of arming ourselves against them. Too bad Canadians have lost that option.