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Posted 8/23/2012 9:05:00 AM

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Ontario will be providing crime prevention programs, focusing on youth. It will cost the province $20 million in attempt to get guns off the streets and keep kids from turning to crime.

After two deadly public shootings this summer in Toronto, the plan is to expand summer job programs and add more youth outreach workers. Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur said the government will be funneling money into crime prevention programs in priority communities within the province.

This seems like a good use of provincial money. Is this really going to work? What do the stats say? Are these programs really going to keep guns off the streets?

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Burton4Freedom posted on 08/23/2012 12:41 PM
Sorry, but working in the contraband black market pays too well to be affected by this silly plan. This is a feel good exercise to show that the government is acting on a very visible issue. Perhaps they will launch an inquiry to bury it till next year.
It would be much more effective to lower taxes so that the private sector can create real jobs and provide real career paths. But, we cannot avoid the elephant in the room which is destroying so many lives. The artificially inflated prices for drugs, sex and guns, due to prohibition is producing a financial incentive to engage in criminal activity. End prohibition to stop the violence, the absentee fathers and the squandering of taxpayers money.
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1. DrakeS posted on 08/25/2012 06:13 PM
  @Burton4Freedom don't forget to tax the rich. and hey if the government is doing such a noble and good job why don't we give them a pay cut too. Those are the biggest unionized elephants no ones talking about.
  
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Douglas Ford [deleted] posted on 08/25/2012 12:34 AM
Another Ingenious Liberal Strategy

The $20 million dollars could be used to build recreation centres and basketball courts, where “at risk youth” could sell drugs more easily and rent lockers to make guns more accessible when needed.

Additionally, when “cappings” occur, it would be much easier to hide from the police: in the pool, the sauna, the gym or the basketball court.

We could even buy them, “I’m Laughing at Your Ass” buttons that they could proudly wear as they beat up bus drivers and rob 7/11’s.

Educational grants could be provided, so that “at risk youth” could learn how to manufacture and sell illicit drugs in a more profitable manner. Consequently, more teachers would be hired in Ontario, providing a morale boost for those in the education field who believe that Uncle Dalton has abandoned them.

Additionally, shooting ranges could be built, so that the “at risk youth” could practise shooting, so that they don’t accidentally shoot themselves or ... God forbid, an innocent bystander.

Finally, I’m sure that there are enough corrupt politicians who could take their share of the $20 million to go on holidays with their favourite prostitutes somewhere on the blue Adriatic.

After all, we don’t want to upset the Liberals.

It’s definitely another well-developed idea from Uncle Dalton.
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1. DrakeS posted on 08/25/2012 06:10 PM
  @Douglas Ford [deleted] Good to see you’re back to forming cognitive paragraphs again. I guess your sponsor is back in town eh?
  
  Got some bad news for your little one track mind – Hudak supports all these program too.
  
  So, you can park your band wagon bashing while the rest of us consider working as adults to make this province better for everyone. ‘Uncle Dalton’? What does that even mean?
  
  Shooting ranges though – that’s a great idea! I’ll call Uncle Harper to get right on it.
  
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MichaelC_17 posted on 08/28/2012 02:53 AM
whats with this label, "at risk youths?". Is it a new slang for black kids? It appears the only individuals with the guns in Toronto are black. What make one an at risk youth? Could it mean at risk of living a responsible and honest life like the others in the community? Throwing money at a segment of society that has a propensity for crime and guns will solve nothing. What it will do is make the government appear to a handle on the situation
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Joe Blow posted on 08/29/2012 10:46 AM
This is another case of a social experiment gone wrong and now we have to go back and clean up the mess. The problem originated with how the youth was raised. We allowed them to rule the house since they were born. Parents are no longer allowed to discipline their kids without the state stepping in. There is a difference between discipline and abuse. Kids now they can get away with anything and have a sense of entitlement. Even if you want to be a good parent you can't, unless you follow the socialist bleeding heart handbook...... we are now reaping the bad fruit that we have have planted. Instead of pruning, fertilizing, spraying pesticides to get good fruit we have let the trees grow wild and expect unblemished apples.
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BillC_8949 posted on 09/04/2012 10:24 AM
Nothing more than a feel good project. To get the guns off the street you must stop them at the border. Anyone smuggling a gun across gets a minimum sentence of 20 years (for example) of hard labour. None of this Club Fed nonsense, more along the lines of Sheriff Joe.
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JoanA_0122 posted on 09/10/2012 10:00 AM
Give the money directly to the families of identified "at risk" youth and make the money dependent on the kids not associating with any known gangs. If the kid is found, even once, in the company of known gangsters, boom, the money is withdrawn. Youth workers are useless, sorry Josh Stern. These kids see youth workers are middle-class and different from them, fundamentally. They see people like Stern have fathers with pull and money to back them, that they don't. They see their mothers struggle with not enough money to feed their siblings and they see crime as easy money. So, give the money directly to the families and not to youth worker and programs, and make it dependent on clean living. And then enforce it; clean up corruption in police and enforce the law equally across the board.
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