Only through changing our society from one that disenfranchises individuals, can this change. All else is window dressing. Gangs are part of the society we have created like it or not.

"this is due to the accessibility of guns in our province"

Talk about media manipulation!
What Kirk fails to tell us is that B.C. is no worse for gun crime than anywhere else,and if it is,why is that?
What he is actually refering to is ILLEGAL HANDGUNS, because that is what these lowlife gang members and punks are using.
It is deceptive to not clarify that little oversight and it also brands good,responsible gun owners everywhere with the same brush as these scum.
It also gives the general public the wrong impression in regards to ALL guns.
Criminals and gang members do not normally shoot each other with moose hunting rifles or registered handguns.
Why do the cops always forget to mention that part?
They prefer untracable handguns that come from various sources, but usually from the U.S.across the border.
Kirk neglected to mention that they cannot seem to do anything about that, anymore than they can curb gang activity.
Illegal handguns are big business unfortunately, and the police cannot seem to do anything about that either!
But then,they don't seem to be able to do anything about the criminals themselves ,so we should not be suprised!
If they are going to spout off about gangs etc.then they should at least be honest about it.Not all gun owners are criminals.Many are your next door neighbours who belong to a gun or target shooting club or hunt moose every fall.
Here in the north,hunting is favorite pass time and a lifestyle for many, and that should not be lumped in with criminal activity.
And we should not be made to feel that it IS a criminal activity!
Kirk should not be trying to cover for their own failure to fight crime,and if there are not enough cops to deal with it,get more.
Guns are not evil,people are evil,and I am starting to think that this attitude in our police forces that if they removed all the guns in Canada,things would improve.
That may just be an excuse for their own failures.

The First Nations have been disenfranchised by the loss of their culture and few economic opportunities to help themselves. The result has been poverty, loss of parenting skills and shows up in the over representation of Aborigionals in prisons, Homelessness, and addictions etc. We are reproducing the same conditions in our general society with increased poverty, loss of parenting skills and addictions (even our culture is being eroded via the internet and television which have often taken over the role of actual parenting). We are doing to ourselves what the fist nations have experienced. How can we possibly expect different results? Sure some lack to ability to see this but, our politicians are smart enough to understand these concepts but, they merrily continue on helping the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Then the rich have the nerve to call homeless people useless and try everything in their power to avoid even seeing what they have created with their greed. Well, welcome to our(and our children's) future. We always get what we deserve. Gangs are the symptoms of the underlying social illness. Our society is sick.

You will get no argument on that from me Realist!

"due to the accessibility of guns in our province" what gun control didn't prevent this.... maybe our 2 billion dollars could have been better spent!!

"this is due to the accessibility of guns in our province"
-No doubt there is some media minipulation in action! Andyfreeze!

- The illegal guns that are being used for crimes in our province are being smuggled in along with the drugs! Either they do not see that formula or they are neglegent to tell the public in their media verbal diareha. You guys have made some great posts above!

-Crime Control not Gun Control!! Even if you take away all the guns they will still find a way to kill each other and i would hate to see the measures they would start using then, bombs for example. Then innocent people will start getting killed!

Right northman,and that is exactly why our do-nothing politicians need to get off their over-paid and pampered asses and get rid of gun control and the gross waste of money that it is.
Otherwise,we need to get rid of some politicians.
Then take that money and put it into policing,crime control,or whatever it takes!
And actually,the incredible waste of millions and millions in tax dollars on so called "gun control", should be a major election issue!
It has gone on far too long!
Ever notice how the politicians do not even want to talk about it?
Something very stinky there!
Maybe John Gomery will investigate that scam too?

Amen brothers. You can have my guns when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

The politicians fear guns in the hands of the law-abiding populace more than they do guns in the hands of gangs. The move to disarm the general public is 'global' in origin.

And is purposefully organized and orchestrated to ensure there is no chance of any resistance from 'the people' to what those we elect are going to be told to impose on us.

Thus it shall be as long as those we elect all still dance to the tunes of 'Finance, and refuse to make the 'figures' fit the 'facts', instead of trying to determine them.

Perhaps we should get an expert from a city that does'nt have a worse gang problem than we do. I think these gangs originated in Vancouver.

Perhaps we should get an expert from a city that does'nt have a worse gang problem than we do. I think these gangs originated in Vancouver.

If these guys are "gang experts", then how come they are not expert at putting them either in jail or out of business?
What a waste of money!

Dispel the myth about the glamour of gang life? Again, I revert to The Simpsons. Where Big Tony the mafia guy kneels in front of Bart outside the courthouse and says, " Bart. Crime doesn't pay". Then Tony gets into a stretch limousine with a few babes and is quickly chauffeured away. I wonder if Constable Kirk ever watches The Simpsons? Especially when Chief Wiggums says something to Lou.

Are these guys also the "ice jam experts"?. Expert seems to be a lucrative profession.

Call yourself an expert and the bureaucrates stumble over themselves to get you to comment on their adgendas. This is why our country is so ---k tup!