We Accept It As Part Of Our Daily Lives

And that is not surprising when you consider our "leaders" feed us stats and sound bytes on what a good job they are doing, the arrests that are being made (but not the final outcome), how much they are spending on crime prevention and helping at-risk kids, putting forward the rationale that there are not enough "basketball courts," and we have the liberals, ndp and bloc opposing law and order legislation in Ottawa.

Blood paving T.O. streets
Another day, another shooting and no one seems in a rush to put an end to the violence
By JOE WARMINGTON

There was blood in the streets.

And on them, too. Lots of blood, actually. In fact, small puddles of it were all over the sidewalk, too.

Yes, the corner of Queen's Quay E. and Lower Jarvis had a surreal feel to it as you could not miss the hundreds of spatterings of blood over a distance of some 80 metres.

It's ugly. It may still be there today. It didn't look as if anybody was in a giant hurry to clean it up.

There were 61 blood-soaked footprints -- the remnants of gunplay early yesterday involving at least two suspects.

Ho hum. Just another war in the streets. You know the drill. The poorly paid and underappreciated paramedics saved more lives and no witnesses saw anything to help frustrated, overworked cops.

Witnesses would have had a difficult time missing this blood though. You couldn't possibly.

"It's disgraceful," said courier Corey McCoy. "If you commit a crime with a gun you should get a minimum 10 years."

Give Mayor Miller A Call Mr. McCoy......