There's hope for an end to gun violence
29th Dec 2005, 09:44 GMT
The year 2005 is no longer searching for a theme. Boxing Day made it clear. Not just another shooting, easily contextualized in a more or less normal year of big-city homicide -- whatever that is -- the horror on Yonge Street is brazenly symbolic. However senseless it was, however trivial the dispute that triggered it might have been, it can only be felt as an act of terrorism: a targeted wound to the open heart of the city, delivered on the one day of the waning year it is most vulnerable, and a pointed -- to the point of seeming deliberate -- confirmation of the truly wild criminality that now threatens us all. (INSIDER Edition subscribers only)
There's hope for an end to gun violence related news:
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- Canada blames violence surge on US — Scotsman.com News - Gun crime
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- Ceasefire PA Joins with Community and Elected Officials to Ask New Year's Revelers to Forsake Dangerous Tradition of 'Celebratory Gunfire'; Local Practice Poses Grave Risks to Community, Underscoring Need for Better Judgment About Preventing Gun Injury — U.S. Newswire Releases
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