{"id":2971,"date":"2008-04-07T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/07\/mayor-turns-to-facebook-youtube-to-fight-guns\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:40:05","slug":"mayor-turns-to-facebook-youtube-to-fight-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/07\/mayor-turns-to-facebook-youtube-to-fight-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor turns to Facebook, YouTube to fight guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jc06nT2gvjw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>For years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1075347765\">Mayor David Miller<\/a> has written to prime ministers (first Paul Martin, now Stephen Harper) to demand a ban on handguns as part of a broader effort to end gun violence. Today, Mayor Miller kicked off an internet-based <a href=\"https:\/\/wx.toronto.ca\/handgunban.nsf\/petition\/\">petition<\/a> campaign that he is promoting on his Facebook group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=11028449039&amp;ref=mf\">Ban Handguns in Canada&#8230;Sign the Petition<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jc06nT2gvjw\">YouTube<\/a> in the hope of engaging Canadians from across the country in the anti-gun lobby.<\/p>\n<p>While cynics will denounce this as ineffective buck-passing, Mayor Miller says in his video that &#8220;every  single country in the world that has strict gun laws has lower rates of homicide by gun, suicide, has lower rates of accidental death and has lower rates of domestic violence using handguns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morally, I find Mayor Miller&#8217;s argument extraordinarily compelling but I also think a handgun ban will have an impact. Though illegal guns will continue to exist, it&#8217;s just too easy for people with bad intentions to steal a legal gun owner&#8217;s collection. When we&#8217;re dealing with a weapon that is so deadly (and manufactured to be such), the interest of an athlete or collector just doesn&#8217;t trump the public interest of safer communities.<\/p>\n<p>The broader approach to community safety championed by Mayor Miller is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/community_safety\/\">here<\/a>. Even the Toronto Sun&#8217;s Sue-Ann Levy found nice things to say about it in a March 2008 column titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/News\/Columnists\/Levy_Sue-Ann\/2008\/03\/23\/5079891-sun.php\"><em>A jobs program that works<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jc06nT2gvjw[\/youtube] For years, Mayor David Miller has written to prime ministers (first Paul Martin, now Stephen Harper) to demand a ban on handguns as part of a broader effort to end gun violence. 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