Quotes from Toronto Mayor David Miller

About Canadian Firearms Owners

• Simply put, it's because guns are different than anything else. They serve one purpose and one purpose only and that is to kill.
• we're going to close the loopholes in our law and end the ownership of handguns in this country.
• To me it's very simple -- handguns kill people. They kill people who aren't involved, they're used to kill family members and I don't think it's acceptable anymore to have these loopholes in the law to have so-called collectors have them.
• It is time to banish handguns from our nation
• It's just not acceptable and I think it's time the federal government passed legislation to end the ownership of handguns in this country, period,
• so-called hobbyists and collectors [who] put innocent lives at risk."
• stolen from so-called 'legal' gun owners whose storage methods didn't work.
• Banning handguns would not only lessen the violence that has become almost common on city streets, according to the mayor, it would "make an incredibly powerful statement about the kind of city and the kind of country we are."
• I think it's time as Canadians to say once and for all that we do not accept the ownership of handguns in our society."
• "Handguns exist for one purpose: they're designed to kill people. That's what handguns are for. It's time that together as Torontonians and Canadians we put an end to the ownership of handguns in our society."
• "There are loopholes today that allow so-called collectors and hobbyists to possess handguns, and to carry them around our city,"

About American Firearms Owners

• The U.S. is exporting its problem of violence to the streets of Toronto,
• ... this should come as no surprise, there’s a complete lack of common sense in the US and its easier for a Canadian to drive down to a place like Ohio and go to a gun show and bring it back in.
• "It's a sign that the lack of gun laws in the U.S. is allowing guns to flood across the border that are literally being used to kill people in the streets of Toronto,"
• There’s a heck of a lot of Americans who believe in common sense gun control. Maybe they’ll wake up and discover that they’re exporting literal death to the streets of Toronto and other Canadian cities.
• The law must be changed and we have to continue to work with American mayors to stop the flow of guns across the border into Canada,
• There are two sources: They're from Canada and the United States. The Canadian guns sometimes are from registered gun owners, as we sadly saw last week, often are from guns stolen from so-called collectors. And it's time to close those loopholes. And we must be much more aggressive to stop the guns coming from the United States.
• We've got ongoing work with U.S. jurisdictions and that's important as something we can do. We've ask our legal department to explore every avenue of what we can do to get at the supply of guns and ammunition.
• We need to take a strong stand about it and make it a big issue between Canada and the US so the Americans choose to make a different choice about it.
• I’ve lived in the States, I went to university in the States and I don’t think there’s a place for guns there either...