"Gun-free" Toronto has erupted in gun violence. Of course, it can't be their strict gun laws that are to blame, those are working perfectly as expected. No, it's all America's fault. Apparently Karl Rove, when he's not outting CIA agents, has been running illegal guns up to the great white north.

The city has exploded in gun violence, with seven separate shootings within 24 hours prompting the police chief to maintain the city is safe and the Mayor to insist something must be done. . .

Local news reports compared the city to the "Wild West" and sprayed television screens with bloody images of wounded men undergoing surgery in inner-city hospitals and of the bullet-riddled SUV.

Uh oh. There's Ravenwood's Law again.

The Mayor blamed lax gun laws in the United States for some of Toronto's violence, saying half the firearms in the city originated in America.

So where are the other half coming from? Greenland?

"It really is time to establish an effective strategy, working with the United States, to stop the easy access for guns that people are going to bring to Canada," Mr. Miller said.

"It's a huge problem and it's just not acceptable."

Molon Labe, bitch!

And yet, to Toronto residents, the violence has become strangely familiar.

The city has been rocked in past months by apparently random gunfire, with passersby hit in shootings near the Yorkdale Shopping Centre, across from the Eaton Centre, and a mother of four shot in a north-end club.

Some blamed the violence on the city's inability to provide opportunities for young minorities in a city that's become hyper-sensitive to issues of police racial profiling.

That sounds a lot like other gun control/violence capitals like Chicago, Washington D.C., New Jersey. And isn't interesting that Canada now seeks to crack down on American ownership of firearms, but when we asked for help cracking down on Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction, there was nobody home.