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It's great not having to worry about whether to own a gun.
The story in Toronto these days is that the mayor and others want a gun ban. I don't think it matters either way. Not in my eyes. There have only been 27 murders in the city so far, which isn't too bad considering that Toronto's record year was 2007 with 84 murders, half of which were gun-related. I don't think a gun ban would do much.
(As a reference point, Chicago, a city of similar size, had 435 homicides in 2007.)
I'm generally ambivalent on gun bans.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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