Two Shootings in Vancouver in 24 hours

[Jacob]

Those gangsters are getting out of control... fucking idiots.

Last night:

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Gunshots+ring+East+Vancouver+person+injured/9920085/story.html
(this one had the daughter of a minor TV star hurt, as well as a guy who apparently was wanted on charges

This morning (in a yuppy part of town too):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-shootings-3-shot-in-yaletown-science-world-1.2671117

[crazy canuck]

In our case the solution to reducing gangland shootings is pretty striaght forward.  Remove the market they are fighting over by legalizing drugs.

[Jacob]

In our case the solution to reducing gangland shootings is pretty striaght forward.  Remove the market they are fighting over by legalizing drugs.

... I thought you were going to say "shoot them".

[Valmy]

Is American gun culture spreading? 

[crazy canuck]

Is American gun culture spreading? 

Naw just American guns getting smuggled into Canada illegally by the drug gangs.  Another solution to our problem is gun control in the US but I am not holding my breath on that one.

[Valmy]

Is American gun culture spreading? 

Naw just American guns getting smuggled into Canada illegally by the drug gangs.  Another solution to our problem is gun control in the US but I am not holding my breath on that one.

You will need alot of guns to force gun control on the US.  So just wait a bit I am sure enough will be smuggled up there eventually.

[crazy canuck]

Is American gun culture spreading? 

Naw just American guns getting smuggled into Canada illegally by the drug gangs.  Another solution to our problem is gun control in the US but I am not holding my breath on that one.

You will need alot of guns to force gun control on the US.  So just wait a bit I am sure enough will be smuggled up there eventually.

Meh, I dont want to force such a thing.  We can implement a home grown solution. 


And actually what we really need from the US is more of your more enlightened citizens to escape from the US and become Canadians.

[viper37]

In our case the solution to reducing gangland shootings is pretty striaght forward.  Remove the market they are fighting over by legalizing drugs.

you want to make the case to legalize cocaine & heroin?

[Valmy]

And actually what we really need from the US is more of your more enlightened citizens to escape from the US and become Canadians.

Will I get free healthcare?

[crazy canuck]

And actually what we really need from the US is more of your more enlightened citizens to escape from the US and become Canadians.

Will I get free healthcare?

If you become one of us?  yes.  Well and you will pay taxes.

[crazy canuck]

In our case the solution to reducing gangland shootings is pretty striaght forward.  Remove the market they are fighting over by legalizing drugs.

you want to make the case to legalize cocaine & heroin?

sure

[Razgovory]

In our case the solution to reducing gangland shootings is pretty striaght forward.  Remove the market they are fighting over by legalizing drugs.

This eminently reasonable.  In the US we made alcohol illegal by constitutional amendment.  When the amendment was rescinded organized crime disappeared within five years.

[Jacob]

So the guy who got shot in the second shooting was the owner of a bike shop, shot by a disgruntled employee (who rode away on a bicycle afterwards).

Some friends who frequent the area say the owner was a jerk.

[crazy canuck]

Some friends who frequent the area say the owner was a jerk.

Legalization may have helped 

[derspiess]

Some friends who frequent the area say the owner was a jerk.

OMG BLAMING THE VICTIM