Creeping in
By Nancy Marley-Clarke, Calgary Herald
Re: "Vigils will burn out, but gun crime won't,"
Naomi Lakritz, Opinion, July 25.
I don't think we can let ourselves get too smug about gun violence. Yes, Americans have far too many guns, but not long ago, gunmen rampaged through a mall and a picnic in Toronto, killing several people. We also had random, deadly gang violence right here in a Calgary restaurant not long ago. And let's not forget Vancouver's recent wave of gang violence, during which many were killed on city streets and their own front lawns.
We Canadians like to think ourselves as peaceful and law abiding, but the "sick mindset about guns in the U.S." that Naomi Lakritz describes is creeping into our own neighbourhoods with alarming speed. Scary.
Nancy Marley-Clarke, Calgary
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