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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=30500" target="_blank">More youth using guns in violent crimes: StatsCan report</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/18-law--order" target="_blank">Law & Order</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=kitty" target="_blank">kitty</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-02-20 09:46:21
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[ridenrain]

Looks like some grumpy guss's need a serious thug hug and a severe slap on the wrist, in a non-violent, tough love sort of way.
A couple of weeks of house arrest should smarten up these misunderstood, under achievers, and the time playing Grand Theft Auto will improve their self worth issues.

[ryan29]

well its clear many youth for whatever reasons are still choosing to get involved with drugs and gangs in our major cities. they seem to be undetered by the fact they could get killed or into serious trouble . guess they think there cool or something .

[sasquatch2]

$1:

Police-reported data from 2006 indicate that the number of youth aged 12 to 17 accused of gun-related crimes has risen in three of the previous four years, said the report released this morning. Since 2002, the rate has shot up 32 per cent.

Sort of funny how the control freaks insist on firearms laws as the solution when the current laws prohibit anyone under 18 possessing any firearm. Logically this would indicate that Stats Can is making this up----otherwise the handwringing control freaks are wrong----

[BartSimpson]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

$1:

Police-reported data from 2006 indicate that the number of youth aged 12 to 17 accused of gun-related crimes has risen in three of the previous four years, said the report released this morning. Since 2002, the rate has shot up 32 per cent.

Sort of funny how the control freaks insist on firearms laws as the solution when the current laws prohibit anyone under 18 possessing any firearm. Logically this would indicate that Stats Can is making this up----otherwise the handwringing control freaks are wrong----

I'm sure your comment will evoke no end of sputtering denial.

[uwish]

when it comes to firearms and Canada, this nation has it's head shoved so far up it's own asshole it can see daylight when it talks!

[ShepherdsDog]

No reprecussions and over indulged youths, brought to you Satan's road crew.

[taipei]

Ridenrain's got it!!!

All these youths need is a BIG hug!!!See, they lack...LOVE!!! They are only doing what they do to get..ATTENTION!!!

If it was up to me, I'd buy each and everyone one of these misguided children a playstation..They could take out their aggression playing games...

OK, all to-gether now...GROUP HUG!!!!! Aww, c'mon, now....Listen if ya don't ALL hug, I'll shoot ya'all....

[stemmer]

Most of the offenders in Halifax are repeat offenders... Maybe if they served longer sentences and parole wasn't given so easily we would have less crime....

[kenmore]

oh the tories love guns.. they should start handing them out with condoms in grade 9.. ya right .. but hey we dont want gun control...

[stemmer]

Gun control only takes guns away from legal & responsible owners like farmers, hunters, sportsmen... It doesn't disarm criminals...!!!!!!

Political leaders like Hitler and Stalin favored gun control as it disarmed citizens...

Most criminals file the serial numbers off of their guns...

Prohibition did not work for a reason... Prostitution is against the law, yet we still have prostitutes.... Most drugs are against the law yet we have a drug problem... Gun violence is a sympton of a much deeper problem within our society that most politicians do not want to touch with a 20 foot pole...

[ridenrain]

The 2 billion dollars from the gun registry may have bought votes in the Maritimes but it hasn't saved one life.
That money could have bought MRI machines nation wide and that would have saved lives.

That alone shows where the Liberal priorities lie.

[stemmer]

I resent that comment... It never bought a single Liberal or NDP vote in my house... we voted for Harper...the only choice that makes sense...

[ridenrain]

$1:

Kid crime skyrockets

By TOM BRODBECK

If anyone wants to see how well Canada's youth laws are working, check out Statistic's Canada's latest data on gun crimes among youths.

They're skyrocketing.

According to StatsCan, the number of youths aged 12 to 17 charged with a firearm-related crime jumped in 2006 for the third time in four years.

Firearm-related offences among youth soared a staggering 32% from 2002 to 2006.

Shouldn't this be setting off alarm bells for the folks in our justice system?

The one-third increase, according to StatsCan, is attributed largely to an increase in armed robberies.

You know, teenagers holding up convenience stores and gas bars with hand guns and sawed-off shotguns?

Coincidentally -- or maybe not so coincidentally -- the four years covers the period following the implementation of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003.

What the stats show is the YCJA, at least where gun crimes are concerned, is not working.

Sure, overall youth crime has been on the decline. But certain specific youth crimes -- including some of the most serious ones out there such as firearm-related offences -- are soaring.

According to Statistics Canada, youth crime fell 6% in 2005. That's the figure the criminologists like to use when they tell us the media exaggerates crime.

But if you look at some of the more serious crimes, the opposite is true.

For example, in 2005, youth homicides were up 47%, attempted murder jumped 11%, aggravated assault was up 6% and robbery jumped 9% that year.

Firearm-related crimes among youth, including armed robbery, is one of the most egregious crimes out there.

And when that category of crime jumps at the rate it has -- over four years -- you can't ignore it. It's not a statistical blip.

Human nature

Does the extreme leniency of the YCJA, which emphasizes non-jail time even for violent offenders, have anything to do with it?

You can't prove it either way.

But human nature is such that when kids know they can rob a gas bar with a firearm and get a slap on the wrist for it, there's little to discourage them from carrying out the crime.

You don't need a social work degree or a PhD in criminology to know that. It's common sense.

Unfortunately, common sense sometimes gets hijacked by social work gobbledegook and society loses sight of those very basic human traits.

These kids aren't stupid. They talk among themselves. And they know very well they can dupe the adults in the justice system, feign remorse and capitalize on the system's well-meaning -- but grossly misguided -- philosophy that young, violent offenders should be coddled rather than held accountable for their crimes.

It's common knowledge.

My question is, what kind of data do justice officials need to be convinced the status quo is not working?

Do firearm-related offences among youth have to jump 50%? How about 75%? Do they have to double in four years?

What's the magic number?

I'd sure like to know.

[hwacker]

$1:

You don't need a social work degree or a PhD in criminology to know that. It's common sense.

Oh now don't say that, what about all the liberals with degrees in those fields.


Out of work?

so sad.............