Toronto’s 81st homicide victim of 2018 is just 15 years old.
He was shot to death at about 4:20 p.m. at 230 Sackville Street in the heart of Regent Park.
It’s another kid murdered in Toronto in 2018.
Repugnant and unacceptable. But predictable and routine.
Yet public safety, in a year where we have had about 20 innocent people murdered for going for ice cream, walking to work, sitting in a car, or going bowling, is not a campaign issue.
In the first two debates, Mayor John Tory and main challenger Jennifer Keesmaat have talked about arts funding, transit, traffic and housing.
This while Toronto is just shy of 1991’s record of 89 homicides — all while there’s still more than three months left in 2018.
This year, our youngest victim of murder was Julianna Kozis, 10. Our oldest was Betty Forsyth, 94.
Don’t forget the playground shooting that saw two girls, five and nine, wounded.
And just this Saturday, the victim of Toronto’s 77th homicide was a 16-year-old boy who police have not even told us his name.
No one is demanding to know because the white towel has been thrown when it comes to shooting carnage in Toronto.
When kids being shot and seniors being run over is not on the debate card, you know there’s no urgency to stop the carnage.
Few seem to talk about the lucrative drug trade behind the violence, but instead foster it by erecting tents to allow for convenient and comfortable drug use.
Whenever politicians, including Tory, talk about guns the is focus on banning and confiscating legal one owned by collectors and target shooters and not the thousands of illegal firearms gangbangers on every corner carry with impunity because they know they won’t be carded.
Another thing I would like to see is someone tally up the number of gunshots fired this year. It seems at many shootings, multiple rounds is common place now. Just last week I wrote about a birthday party where a video shows a guy showed up and fired seven shots — hitting one teen in the hand.
It wasn’t talk about at either debate either. The shooters have their own justice system going on out there if the sun is up or down.
The latest example is another Toronto kid bleeding to death in Regent Park just a few minutes after school let out.
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