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RSS FeedsMoms of shot kids want gun control, not prayers, mother says as group launches campaign for handgun ban
(The Star Food)

 
 

13 november 2018 20:15:24

 
Moms of shot kids want gun control, not prayers, mother says as group launches campaign for handgun ban
(The Star Food)
 


A gun control group is hoping a new 13-foot-tall bullet-shaped exclamation point outside Toronto’s city hall will lend a sense of urgency to the debate about gun violence in Canada.In the wake of increasing gun violence in Toronto and Canada as a whole, the Coalition for Gun Control launched a national campaign Tuesday morning urging Ottawa to ban handguns and military-style assault weapons.Stacey King, whose two children were shot this summer in a Toronto playground, said the time for platitudes has passed.“Thankfully they survived, but our lives have been changed forever,” she said. “Mothers of children that have been shot do not want prayers or flowers. We want gun control.”The campaign consists of billboards and a social media campaign directing people to the website triggerchange.ca. The site links to a government petition calling for the weapon ban — more than 600 people had signed as of noon Tuesday — and urges Canadians to contact their member of parliament.The exclamation point sculpture was briefly placed next to the Toronto sign at city hall Tuesday morning. “I’ve been doing this for almost 30 years,” said coalition president Wendy Cukier, who started advocating for gun control after the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. “And personally, I feel like in the last decade we’ve been moving backward, not forward.”Gun homicides are up sharply this year in Toronto — 45 so far this year, up from 35 by this date in 2017 — and the city is two killings away from breaking its record for homicides in a single year, set in 1991. The city councils of Toronto and Montreal have urged the federal government to ban handguns in their cities. “We have all the evidence, we have all the data, we have all the experts, who have argued very clearly that stronger controls on guns reduce the risk that people will be injured and die — not just in the big cities, but right a ...


 
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