Guns on our streets...

There can be little doubt that getting guns off the streets is a most positive approach to reducing particular types of crime. Lets us therefore express out appreciation to those leaders who were instrumental in bringing forth the program in Ottawa and let us hope that other communities will follow this example. Yet, I wonder what took those leaders so long to adopt this additional approach to crime prevention.
Now the more difficult job is to get guns away from the criminal element and from those who have illegal weapons in their possession. Governments can develop programs to do this. If we place a high value on lives of innocent civilian, rich rewards should be made available to individuals who supply information that results in getting those illegal guns off the streets and which also lead to the prosecution of those individuals who are in violation of our laws. Action is required, why not now?

The above words have been sent as a comment on the third part of a continuing article relating to guns to the Ottawa XPress.  (http://www.ottawaxpress.ca )