Bill Blair sounds pretty skeptical about banning guns in Toronto

Bill Blair is the latest city personality to voice doubts about Adam Vaughan’s suggestion to ban guns and bullets. On Friday, the police chief argued that—despite what Vaughan (and others) have warned—Toronto is unlikely to have another “summer of the gun,” and offered a no-nonsense view of the ban proposal, saying, “I don’t see that would be a solution to the problem.” Blair explained his position using the oft-cited stat that about 70 per cent of seized handguns are smuggled in from the U.S., with the remainder stolen or otherwise obtained from legitimate gun owners. In other words, banning guns or ammo wouldn’t do much—except to make some people (read: voters) feel like someone (read: a potential mayoral candidate for 2014) is taking action. [National Post]