“If you have a problem,” writes John Lott, “it`s often easier to blame someone else rather than deal with it. And with Canada`s murder rate rising 12 percent last year and a recent rash of murders by gangs in Toronto and other cities, it`s understandable that Canadian politicians want a scapegoat. That at least was the strategy Canada`s premiers took when they met last Thursday [August 11] with the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, David Wilkins, and spent much of their time blaming their crime problems on guns smuggled in from the United States.”
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