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Gun owners fired up |
The duel is on.
A group representing legal gun owners has vowed to hit Toronto where it hurts the most -- in the economy -- because Mayor David Miller has targeted them in his ongoing battle against gun crime.
"Our goal is to hurt the City of Toronto," said Tony Bernardo, of the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, which speaks for the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. "You can only take being defecated upon for so long."
He accused Miller of going after legal gun owners because he has no other ideas on how to solve the gun-crime problem in Toronto.
NOT BACKING DOWN
Miller announced Monday he would support recommendations going before the next meeting of the powerful executive committee to shut down two gun clubs that operate out of city-owned facilities.
Miller did not back down yesterday.
"Guns are so unsafe that we, as a city, are not going to treat it has a hobby anymore," Miller said. "We're going to treat it as the serious safety hazard that it is."
There are 13 proposals before the committee next Tuesday, including a call for a bylaw that would prohibit the creation of new gun shops and shooting clubs.
Councillor Michael Thompson called Miller's actions "political junkfood."
"It's all cosmetic," Thompson said. "He's not willing to deal with the major issues; he deals with all things around gun violence which are very minor in nature."
WANT COOPERATION
Thompson said the mayor would be better off co-operating with the federal government to curb illegal guns at the border and encouraging stiffer jail sentences for those who use guns in the commission of crimes.
Bernardo's group launched the website, torontothebad.com, to let gun owners know exactly where they stand when they set foot in the city.
"Don't go where you're not wanted," the website says in urging a Toronto boycott. "Let (Miller) know that we, our loved ones, our friends and anyone else we care to influence will choose another place to spend our money."
The group will also place ads in the U.S., where Bernardo said there are 80 million registered gun owners, urging they spend their tourist dollars elsewhere.
Why these exceptions? Toronto mayor David Miller wants to make all handguns illegal in the city, except for police and provincial or federal government facilities.
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