And another opportunity for politicians to spout the same old crap and some members of the community to get their 15 minutes but I haven't seen anything in the papers about where the two kids, accused of shooting Jordan, got the gun. I find it hard to believe there are not members of the community who know the gun suppliers. Untie the hands of police to stop and search withoutcries of anguish about racial profiling. Lost in all the glory hogging is a comment from the local councillor....
"But Councillor Anthony Perruzza, who attended the peace march, said the community needs to step in to end the onslaught of crime. "It seems like we've gone from crisis, to funeral home, to cemetery, to vigil, to crisis, to funeral home...," he said. "It starts with us and the choices we make. There's a lot of people here today but we need to bring more -- we need to generate the awareness with more of them."
Jordan Manners' Family Leads Spirited Anti-Gun Rally
Jordan Manners was shot dead inside C.W. Jefferys C.I. and on Sunday, just over two weeks later, the 15-year-old murder victim's family led hundreds of others in a march through North York against the very weapon his killer used.
"We're thinking of all the youths across Canada," said Jordan's mother, Lorraine Small. "I don't want to see another mother go through what I'm feeling."
Organizers of Sunday's event were hoping it would be one of the biggest marches Toronto has ever seen, and while the numbers didn't reflect that, there were plenty of people waving signs and letting their voices be heard, all making a positive impact in an effort to stop guns across the GTA.
"We want to find out what system is in place that is allowing these things to continue happening," said Manners' uncle, Greg Stokes. "In a flood, you find out how to stop the flood first and then you take care of getting the water out."
In fact, Sunday's rally appears to have made an immediate impact. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he wants a review of what the province is doing to get handguns off Toronto's streets and some of the federal faces in the crowd want to make sure that happens sooner rather than later.
"We shouldn't have handguns on the streets of the city," said NDP leader Jack Layton. "Handguns should be in the possession of law enforcement officials and that's it."
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