Just The Facts Maam....Just The Facts

Of course the no Plan B Mayor doesn't and never has let the facts get in the way of holding media scrums........

Miller’s YouTube video

Fact Check: the ban handguns campaign

David Miller is talking tough on gun violence, but do his numbers add up?

Barry Cooper comments.......

21, April, 2008 | 3:05 pm

If handguns were illegal, and if criminals obeyed the law, and if angry unstable people were always calm, then, as Mayor David Miller said, innocent bystanders would not be shot either by criminals or by angry and unstable people using handguns. The only thing wrong with the logic of His Worship is its complete divorce from reality. Which brings us to his closing remark: a handgun ban would constitute "an incredibly powerful statement about the kind of ... country we are." This is true, which is one more reason why Canadians, at least from this part of the world, are by turns amazed and amused by the political leaders of Toronto.

For those who have a serious interest on the question of the effectiveness of banning handguns, as distinct from encouraging people, especially elderly women, to carry concealed weapons, may I commend to their attention John Lott's classic statistical study of the problem, "More Guns, Less Crime".