Much political "hay" is made about gun homicides in Toronto, the mayor and former Prime Minister Martin even proposing the idea of outright banning guns from our city. I completely support this idea, of course, but think its range is too narrow. If we're looking at restricting the use of something that causes needless deaths, then there should be laws restricting car use.

Take a look at the numbers before saying that I'm being unrealistic.

According to the Toronto Police Service, there has been 21 auto-related deaths ("Traffic Fatality") this year, and using the handy Homicide Map on the Toronto Star's website, it can easily be seen that there have been 7 gun-related deaths in Toronto so far in 2006. Cars in 2006 have been 3 times as deadly as guns.

You wouldn't put a shooting range in the middle of a downtown street, so why would you encourage cars to use our streets as highways?

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