taken out of context, then used to compel an emotional response from the public but in themselves have little or no meaning. I feel these are technically true but morally a lie. I submit that the city government of Toronto is engaging in a campaign of intolerance and prejudice against the RFC. If I were to publish similar statistics against a visible minority, or religious group in Canada I would likely be charged with hate crimes. The so called fact sheet paints a picture of the RFC posing some danger to Canadian society. It calls for the elimination of part of the RFC that can perform it’s recreation in a metropolitan area. To illustrate this point, and given my limited resources I’ll pick one the of the “facts” from the Toronto.ca web site. “the 3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds”. http://sandbox.ca/~ijeff/Politics/Guns/TorontoLetter/Toronto5_ html_m76bcb079.gif Raw data http://sandbox.ca/~ijeff/Politics/Guns/TorontoLetter/ Mortality15-19_t019_en.pdf What’s Killing Canadians I’ve also included with this document the original source of this information and I used the Statistics Canada groups whenever possible. I hope you can see how out of context statistics are being used in the Firearms fact sheet to paint an inaccurate picture. I believe you will find that each of these “facts” if analysed will yield similar mis-representation of the situation.
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