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Illegal Gun Pipeline into Canada
May 23, 2006 11:32 AM
An illegal gun pipeline from Houston to Toronto has officials on both sides of the border alarmed.
Canadian police seized almost 40 deadly weapons, including an AK-47, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash late last week in what police are calling the biggest gang raid ever in the country. The raid took place on an Indian reservation outside of Toronto, only a few hours from the U.S. border.
According to authorities, the guns came from Houston, Texas in what they call a cross-border gun pipeline. Last year border officials seized 180 guns, but it's estimated that over $1 billion of contraband, including guns and drugs, are smuggled across the border through these reservations every year. The result has been an increase in violent crime, particularly gang warfare, in major cities like Toronto and Montreal.
Guns and drugs aren't the only American imports to Canada. The gang that was raided, the Jamestown Crew, is affiliated with the well-known American Crips street gang. And like their American counterparts, members participate in hip-hop street DVDs glorifying gang violence.
May 23, 2006 | Permalink | User Comments (13)
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VERY INTERESTING...
Posted by: jENNY | May 23, 2006 3:12:06 PM
Well, that settles it!
I propose that Canada build a triple layered fence, hundreds of miles long.
Kinda' like the Great Wall of China, the Great Wall of Israel or the pending Great Wall of America.
The only way we can get a grip on the
people and contraband crossing these borders is more walls, walls, walls!
Posted by: zach | May 23, 2006 6:41:53 PM
Throwing in the line "members participate in hip-hop street DVDs glorifying gang violence." shows that you need to research a lot more before throwing out these statements. Hip Hop DVDs come in a wide variety, from conscious, so called "gangsta rap", documentary, live concert... etc... The news media needs to stop simplifing their stories to fit their ignorant stereotypes. I'm sure some artists may have glorified violence in some random DVD but it is not something done in all hip hop dvds. Each one teach one... research and stop with these useless articles...
Posted by: Toronto born | May 23, 2006 7:36:39 PM
There's not a country on this planet that surpasses our own for "legitimately" selling and providing weaponry to every degree on a global scale to the tune of billions of dollars annually helping to fill the arsenals of the very miscreants who will knowingly slaughter their own people for political purposes and agenda.
It would be, and has long been a long lived double standard that the rich can make these arrangements where they see fit, while the people of the streets should be imprisoned and punished for taking the same interest in this little hell of a free marketplace... both are born from the examples put before us by leadership.
Let he that is without sin, throw the first stone
Posted by: zach | May 24, 2006 3:44:45 AM
guns and people think thats all that gets smuggledmexicans been doin it for years ,coke, weed, people,meth,this country is gettig attacked from within and the people from other countries are gettin away with it and been gettin away with it for years and were lettin it happenand the bad thing is were doin it to are self to AND THATS A DAMN SHAME
Posted by: David g. | May 24, 2006 9:22:41 AM
It is a misconception by Americans that Canadians cannot purchase guns legally in Canada. Plenty of Canadians are hunters and/or firearms enthusiasts, and purchase their guns from sporting goods stores. These guns are sometimes stolen from their owners and used in crimes. Not all Canadian gun crimes are the fault of the USA, nor are Canadian drug crimes. Canada is one of the largest suppliers of pot to the USA, so it looks like the drugs flow both ways.
Posted by: From Canada | May 24, 2006 12:00:26 PM
Who cares when the U.S.is becomming a province of Mexico
Posted by: tom | May 24, 2006 12:17:37 PM
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
-- Judge Alex Kozinski, 9th Cir. Ct. of Appeals.
Posted by: rich | May 24, 2006 12:20:48 PM
40 guns? Thats a "pipeline" ???
180 guns seized in all of 2005? GASP!
Thats what, a week's worth of business at your average Cabela's or other large sporting good store?
Come back to me when you have real news.
Posted by: Mick | May 24, 2006 1:13:46 PM
Be easier to let all your citizens bare arms, not just the criminals.
Posted by: steve | May 24, 2006 4:26:48 PM
This is disgusting Liberal media at it worst. Such a non-story story. Get Jimmy Olsen on something worthwhile and news- worthy.
Posted by: Jeramie | May 24, 2006 7:12:17 PM
I notice that the writer states that a rise in violent crime, especially gang warefare,is a result of firearms coming into the country. Whatever happened to knives and clubs? I must have missed the memo that gang warfare can no longer take place without guns. The violence makes a market for firearms not the other way around. I am the first to admit that I don't want them to have guns and the sumgglers need to get a maximum punishment. However, the guns do not cause the violence. They just are more efficient than lead pipes and less efficient than atomic bombs.
Posted by: TDS | May 25, 2006 11:17:42 AM
Let's just try to pry the truth from our cold dead fingers. Fine, THC enhanced Canadian Government GM, grown and licenced marijuana (medicinal or otherwise) for Charlton Heston's American made, NRA guns isn't just plain patriotic capitalism between two very proud nations, it's a patriotic duty. It makes excellent business sense for NAFTA to continue to encourage this international tax-free trade, and it balances our trade surpluses and deficits between the two great nations. What about Canadian Polar Bear diamonds for American cocaine ("ice" for "snow")? How else can we pay for useless departments like NORAD, the CIA, DEA, FBI, ATF and Homeland Security. 3,000 dead New Yorkers can't be wrong about the importance of having NORAD and the CIA warning North America of impending attacks, can they?
Just say "yes" to free trade!
Lord of War
Posted by: Lord of War | Jun 30, 2006 1:32:23 AM
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