While this is horrific, and gun violence should not happen anywhere especially in a residential neighborhood, it is NOT the worst we have seen in North America. It isn't even the worst we have seen from Toronto. Gun violence has been growing at a steady pace, but this is not the most horrific public shooting Toronto has seen. What of the "Just Desserts" shootings? The fifteen year old girl killed in a cross fire on Boxing Day? There have been 16 shootings in the Toronto area already this YEAR! How can Chief Bill Blair say that the Scarborough incident is the WORST that has ever taken place in North America? We need a Police Chief in Toronto that KNOWS how bad the gun violence is, not one who thinks it is just BECOMING bad.

We can all be grateful to the multicultural, Liberal fools who created this situation. It has been obvious for at least 3 decades that black immigrants, predominantly Jamaican, are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime, and that is especially true when it comes to any offenses involving guns. Take away the gun crimes committed by this group, and violent crime stats in this city would plunge.

The obvious solution is to, quite simply, close the door. Not fair to the honest ones, but the current situation is not fair to all the law abiding people in this city; they should get priority.

Concurrently, the government should pass laws that make it far easier to deport people who commit crime, and the federal government and police forces across the country should focus on this community and move swiftly to repatriate as many of these people as possible. If the Jamaican government doesn't cooperate, tough. Leave in a raft 1km off Jamaica's shoreline and let them paddle the rest of the way.

James makes the point that multiculuralism (aka political correctness) may have something to do with this shooting. He's probably right but no solution is possible until our media, police, courts, and political leaders start naming, exposing and jailing the people who commit these crimes. Too often these criminals are able to hide their identities from the public and the media/justice system fails to isolate them appropriately from civil society. It may mean jailing them or deporting them. But they must be dealt with and the public must see that they have been dealt with as per the law.

I bet that once these "shooters" have been caught you will be able to connect several dots in their lives which will highlight the abysmal, discipline-free, test-free, basket weaving priorities, of the educational and cultural environment they grew up in. I liken it to two types of parade you can see on Toronto streets. The "Pride" parade where out of control adult individuals consider it their right to parade their genitals in front of children and a military parade where adult males, in particular, show they know how to work together as a team, pass the tests required of them, and demonstrate their willingness to be responsible for themselves and the society which supports them.

Self-discipline and responsible behaviour are learned in school and in one's culture at an early age. Boys, in particular, are not born with a self-discipline gene. Until we focus on letting children know that we expect them to show respect for the adults raising them, to pay attention to their studies and to pass the tests needed to show they have absorbed their lessons, we will fail them and society. It wouldn't hurt either for fathers in certain communities to stay with their families and provide the responsible male role model needed by male children primarily.

This means, of course, that multiculturalism is a failed policy. Not all cultures are equal. It's important for children to learn to swim, for example. Letting them skip swim class for some archaic religious reason, only serves to prove that we as a society are not willing to stand by our values when faced with an alien culture which hasn't reached the 21st century yet. It's also an example of the weakness in the school system to not require that all students get the education they need to prosper in the 21st century.

``This is the worst incident of gun violence, in my memory, anywhere in North America,'' Chief Blair said from the scene of the crime in a residential neighbourhood.'

Worse than L'Ecole Polytechnique? Worse than Virginia Tech? Idiot.

1. who organized this party? 2. how was it promoted? 3.how was it supervised? and now who is liable?