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title: 加拿大枪支回购计划遇冷：枪支暴力、社会根源与未来展望
summary: 本文深入探讨了加拿大枪支回购计划的现状，分析了参与率低于预期的原因，并审视了其对公共安全的影响。同时，文章聚焦多伦多枪支暴力事件，探究其根源，包括数字暴力助推器、青年缺乏机会以及音乐与暴力之间的刻板印象。专家们讨论了未来的执法挑战、政策方向及衡量成功的关键指标，强调了社区参与和心理健康支持的重要性。
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people:
  - Mark Campbell
  - Wendy Sukkur
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  - Public Safety Canada
  - Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police
  - Coalition for Gun Control
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### 加拿大枪支回购计划遇冷：参与率低迷与安全考量

加拿大联邦政府为期一年多的枪支回购计划，旨在禁止2500种“攻击型”枪支，并允许民众在3月31日截止日期前申报以获得补偿。然而，截至该日期，仅有67,000支枪械被申报，远低于政府预期的近140,000支，而实际流通的此类枪支估计可能超过50万人。这一参与率的低下引发了关于原因的探讨，以及在10月31日大赦期结束后，这些未申报枪械将面临的法律后果。背景信息显示，许多在加拿大犯罪中使用的枪支来自美国走私，正如2024年11月多伦多一次枪击事件中的手枪所示。专家们认为，尽管回购计划的初步结果令人担忧，但移除任何枪支都能提升社区安全。首席警官马克·坎贝尔强调，移除与校园枪击等事件相关的攻击型长枪是计划的主要目的，但他也指出，手枪射击等其他形式的枪支暴力在城市及农村地区依然普遍存在，需要持续关注。温迪·苏克尔教授则表示，该计划主要针对非狩猎用途且极少用于大规模枪击的枪械，当它们被使用时，后果是毁灭性的。她同时强调，除了枪支回购，限制合法手枪流通、防止危险人物获取枪支，以及应对家庭暴力和针对执法人员的袭击等问题同样是必须关注的焦点。

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The first deadline in
Ottawa's gun buyback program has
passed.
The federal government has
banned 2500 makes and models of
what it calls assault style
firearms.
And Canadians had until March
31st to declare them for a
chance at compensation.
So how many guns were declared
by the deadline?
67,000.
Now, that may sound like a
pretty big number, but it's way
less than the nearly 140,000 the
government was aiming for.
So why haven't the others been
declared?
And what will happen after the
amnesty period ends on October
31st?
We look at the program's goals
and track record and what this
all means for public safety.
Then.
Many of the guns used in crimes
here are smuggled in from the
United States.
That was the case with handguns
found at the scene of a November
2024 shootout outside a
recording studio in downtown
Toronto.
The incident led to dozens of
arrests and more than 100
charges.
We look at how this affected the
community and at efforts to
fight gun violence on the
ground.
This is The Rundown.
The federal government's assault
style firearms compensation
program hasn't brought in nearly
as many guns as they were
hoping, and as of October, the
amnesty period will end, meaning
people who still have banned
guns could risk criminal
liability.
So what comes next?
Mark Campbell is chief of the
Strathroy-caradoc Police Service
and president of the Ontario
Association of Chiefs of Police.
Wendy Sukkur is a professor at
Toronto Metropolitan University
and president of the coalition
for Gun Control, both.
Joining me in studio.
Thank you so much for joining
us.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you for making the drive
as well.
Let's start off with the buyback
results.
Public Safety Canada says that
more than 67,000 firearms have
been reported through the
buyback program, well short of
the roughly 136,000 that the
government expected.
There are estimates that in
reality, there are about 500,000
or more guns that would have
fallen into this category.
But I do want to ask, is Canada
safer with these results so far?
Chief.
>> So obviously, first of all,
thanks for for offering the
invitation to come and speak on
behalf of of chiefs of police
for for the province of Ontario.
You know, any gun that that we
can take off the streets will
make our communities safer.
You know, the purpose of this
program to remove and to
identify long guns, assault
style firearms, which generally
are sort of connected to school
related shootings and those
types of events.
We want to ensure that those
types of guns and firearms are
removed from from our
communities.
Is our community safer?
I think there is other areas of
gun violence and criminal
activity that are occurring in
our communities that maybe fall
outside the scope of long guns.
And I think as police leaders,
we've really tried to bring
attention to those issues.
The propensity for handgun
shootings that are occurring in
our communities, particularly
some of the large urban centres
that are really having an
impact.
We're also starting to see some
of those crimes disperse out
into some of the smaller rural
areas as well.
You know, we'll often refer to
it as disruption and
displacement.
So as a policing organisations
in and around the large urban
areas are being successful in
dealing with home invasions,
guns and gang repeat firearm
offenders.
Those criminal elements are
moving out into some of the
smaller jurisdictions in our in
our province.
So, you know, we need to remain
focussed and continue to bring
resources to curtail those
issues in our in our smaller
communities.
>> All right, Wendy, when it
comes to the buyback and the
results, there, is Canada safer
with those results?
>> I mean, again, just to echo
what the chief said, the focus
of the buyback was to remove
firearms that are not reasonably
used for hunting, and the type
of firearms that we see in mass
shootings very infrequently.
But when they're used, the
results are devastating.
So for sure, this has been a
promise of the government for
decades, and we're pleased to
see it's moving forward.
But I would agree with the
police, the police chief, that
there are other issues that we
also have to focus on.
And remember, the legislation
that was brought in had a lot of
focus, for example, not just on
cross-border smuggling, but also
on curtailing the the
proliferation of legally owned
handguns, because often legal
handguns are diverted to illegal
markets or used illegally.
It also had a big focus on
reducing the risk that dangerous
people would have access to
guns.
And frankly, when you look at
things like domestic violence,
when you actually look at
murders of police officers and
so on, it's a very different
context than gang violence,
which is often tied to drugs and
human trafficking and so on.
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### 枪支禁令执行的挑战与潜在后果

随着10月31日大赦期的临近，未申报的枪支将面临非法持有问题，这给警方执法带来了严峻挑战。警官们指出，由于存在枪支拥有者的注册信息，警方将不得不优先处理这些案件，但检索和收缴枪械，尤其是来自不情愿持有者的枪械，将是复杂的调查。此举无疑会增加社区的犯罪事件数量，并对警力资源构成压力。特别是考虑到安大略省每年涌入25万起新案件的司法系统，大量新增枪支相关案件将可能导致部分指控因容量不足而无法推进。针对“下一步措施”的提问，专家引用了“Portapique Inquiry”的建议，包括禁止军事风格的半自动枪械、限制手枪以及实施“红旗”或“黄旗”立法。加拿大目前的枪支法律框架已与其他发达国家相当，远优于美国。然而，除了针对帮派和毒品的关注，农村社区和中小城市对年轻人的风险——如枪支自杀——以及家庭暴力中枪支存在的致命风险，都亟需关注。归根结底，法律的有效性在于其“实施、执法和社区参与”的层面，因为公共安全是一个需要警方、法院和司法系统共同努力的社区问题。

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>> I want to get a better
understanding of sort of
perhaps, maybe the failure of
this buyback program in terms of
the numbers that the government
was expecting.
Chief, help me understand what
are some likely reasons someone
wouldn't report a a prohibited
firearm now, but are we talking
is it passive non-compliance?
Is it confusion over, you know,
where it falls under?
Or is this perhaps a deliberate
resistance?
>> I think the safe answer is
probably to say a little bit of
all three of what you are
outlined are articulated there.
You know, certainly as chiefs,
you know, we were first
introduced to the concept of the
buyback just over a year ago
when we met first with the
federal public safety minister,
who really outlined the program,
how it was going to work.
So I think that they have tried
to certainly message and inform
those who are gun owners as to
how the program is going to
work.
You know, there's compensation
that is sort of obviously
aligned to the program.
I think for some gun owners,
those who who chose not to
participate perhaps didn't like
the value that they were
potentially getting for their
firearm.
Some, I think, were just never
going to participate.
And some, I think, just have a
political position that they
feel that this law is not
applicable or shouldn't be put
into law.
And, and I think have just a
position that this is, is
something that the government is
overstepping in relation to
that, you know, from a policing
perspective, we were hoping to
see, I think, more participants
through the way that the
government program was, was laid
out.
A lot of police organisations
have opted not to participate as
as the collection agency.
And if you look at the details
of the program, you know, the
federal government really had
other options available for the
collection of those of those
firearms.
So, you.
>> Know, correct me if I'm
wrong, your police force was one
of the forces that opted not to
be correct.
And was that because of the
resource concern or was that the
administrative concern?
>> I guess I would say a couple
of those issues.
So, you know, when this program
sort of first became available
for police organisations to, to
make those decisions on, and
these are all local decisions
made by a local police service.
And they're certainly in this
province.
They're police services board
that are the governance to to
police agencies.
You know, some of the challenges
were, you know, was it aligning
to the priorities of your local
issues?
Was there resource based
concerns for police
Organization?
And so for our own Organization,
we have other pressing community
concerns that our community
members have clearly identified
as being priorities outside the
scope of the gun buyback
program.
That being said, as a police
Organization and I can speak
with all confidence for every
Organization in this province,
we will still take and collect
guns that people wish to turn in
as part of this program.
>> And I think it's also
important to understand the
buyback program is not the law.
The law is these firearms are
going to be prohibited.
And as of I think it's October
31st, it is illegal to possess
them.
The other thing that just to to
explain a little bit more, most
of the firearms that are being
prohibited are already
restricted firearms, which means
they're registered, which means
it's not a secret if someone has
an AR 15 or someone has a, a
grandfathered AK 47 or whatever.
So it's important to understand
that the buyback was intended to
be an incentive to sort of
sweeten the pot for gun owners.
And if they choose not to
participate, that's their
choice.
I think the factor that perhaps
hasn't been mentioned is many
gun owners thought, I think it's
a minority government.
Maybe the government will change
and we'll get a reprieve.
We have a challenge before the
courts.
Maybe that will go through and
the law will be overturned.
So I think there were a lot of
gun owners encouraged by
elements of the gun lobby, to
not comply because they were
hoping that the law would
change.
But I don't think there's any
evidence that that will be the
case.
The guns are going to be
prohibited.
And if you chose not to get
compensation.
That doesn't exempt you from the
law.
So I think it's important to
understand the buyback was an
incentive program.
It's not the legislation.
>> Well, as you mentioned,
sorry.
>> And if I can just sort of add
an additional detail, sometimes
timing is essential.
And unfortunately, we had a
school related shooting in
British Columbia that speaks to
the issue that this government
was really trying to address.
And so that, you know, along
with some of the things that
Wendy has mentioned, you know,
maybe the hopes of current gun
owners, some of these things are
mounting against the government
probably reversing or changing
their their direction in regards
to this issue.
>> All right.
I want to talk a little bit
about enforcement in terms of
where we go from here.
As we mentioned, October 2026,
at the end of the month, these
firearms that have not been
declared or effectively are
illegal overnight.
Where does that put police in
your services in terms of
enforcing this in reality?
>> Well, it puts it right on the
front burner for police
organisations.
Again, as Wendy mentioned, there
is a registry of who these gun
owners are.
So police organisations are
going to have to really put
their mind to how are we going
to prioritise this as a
community safety issue in our in
our community, they are
challenging investigations for
police Organization to
potentially go in and retrieve a
firearm, particularly one from a
from a gun owner who really may
not be that well intended to to
turn that gun over.
There are some challenges with.
I'm also going to outline our
current justice system.
So this is going to introduce
more potential offences in our
communities.
It's going to be a tax on some
police organisations and their
ability to resource this as an
initiative.
Then we have to deal with what
are we going to do once a
firearm is seized?
Are we proceeding through with
charges in a system, a justice
system that is maxed to capacity
with, you know, volume of cases
currently, you know, in this
province, every single year
there are 250,000 new cases that
arrive at the Ontario Court of
Justice every single year.
This this new area potentially
is going to even increase that
volume of which the courts
perceive as serious cases.
Those are gun cases.
So those generally get high
priority emphasis in the justice
system.
So there are some challenges,
and we don't want to sort of
fall into an area where we start
seizing, laying charges and then
have a system where some of
these charges go away because of
capacity related issues.
>> All right.
I want to talk next steps.
If Canada has already banned
2500 models of so-called assault
style firearms, we've got the
handgun freeze on those sales.
What is the next lever?
>> So if you look at the results
of the Portapique inquiry, which
is the largest inquiry into gun
violence in the country, and you
look at the recommendations, it
included the ban on military
style semi-automatic firearms.
It included restrictions on
handguns.
It included the red flag, the
yellow flag, other kinds of
legislation.
From my point of view, the
legislative framework we have in
Canada is I won't say it's the
strongest in the world, but it
puts us in line with most
industrialised countries.
So our laws now are way better
than the US, but that's a low
bar and comparable to what you
would see in Europe.
With respect, there is often a
lot of focus on gangs and guns
and drugs and so on, and that's
completely legitimate.
But in rural communities, even
in smaller cities like Saint
Catherine's, the risk to youth
is very different.
It's suicide with firearms.
Even in the policing community,
suicide is one of the big risk
factors.
If you have a mentally ill young
person in your home and it's
full of guns, you're just asking
for trouble.
And so what we see is there's a
lot that has to be done.
If you look at domestic
violence, the inquiry into
intimate partner violence in the
province of Ontario really
highlighted issues around the
enforcement of gun laws and
understanding that if someone
and typically it is a man who is
the perpetrator, if someone has
a history of violence against
their partner, the chances of
her being killed are increased
dramatically if there are guns
in the home.
So there are a lot of issues.
I think our laws are strong and
solid.
The issues to me are around
implementation, enforcement and
community engagement.
Because public safety is a
community issue.
The police can't do it alone.
The courts can't do it alone.
The justice system can't do it
alone.
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### 投资方向与衡量成功的维度

关于未来的资金投入方向，专家们提出了多方面的建议。除了加强现有的枪支管理和注册系统，特别是在处理家庭暴力案件中枪支的收缴问题，社区参与被认为是至关重要的环节。警方应积极与枪支拥有者建立互信关系，提供准确信息，以鼓励更多枪械的自愿上缴。同时，青年群体和心理健康问题需得到高度重视，因为许多校园枪击事件的根源在于严重的心理健康问题。情报主导的警务工作，能够帮助追踪非法枪支的流入及在国内的扩散途径，也需要资金支持。然而，解决枪支暴力并非仅靠警务部门，司法系统和社会服务同样需要加强。衡量成功的关键指标应是犯罪统计数据，尤其是凶杀案和枪支相关犯罪率的下降，以及被忽视但普遍存在的枪支自杀问题。专家们认为，社会对风险的认知常常与实际风险存在差距；城市中心的暴力事件吸引了大量关注，但家庭暴力、农村地区的青少年自杀以及仇恨犯罪和政治暴力与枪支的交叉影响，同样不容忽视。

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>> All right, chief, well, Wendy
laid out a bunch of issues there
that could perhaps when we talk
about implementation, perhaps
some dollars could go behind
some of that stuff.
So I do want to ask, where
should the next dollars actually
go?
Is it perhaps more of these
buyback programs?
Is it border measures?
Is it community based prevention
or anything that Wendy has laid
out?
>> Yeah.
So I really liked a lot of the
things that Wendy touched on.
If I can just real briefly
administratively, you know, the
registry and the licensing
pieces, I think that there, you
know, we can continually find
areas to, to enhance and improve
those areas in, particularly
regarding intimate partner
violence pieces where, you know,
there are some challenges
sometimes to not get the
firearms, but sometimes be able
to secure them and keep them
from being returned.
The community engagement piece
is, is paramount, particularly
in this program.
There's a bit of a bruise, I
think, to some of the gun owners
out there, and I think that us
as police, I think we have a
role to play and an ability to
play in ensuring that we
continue to build strong
relationships, to make sure that
they receive accurate and clear
information so that we can
potentially start to see more
and more of these firearms
turned in the area.
In regards to youth and some of
the mental health challenges, I
think that's an area that really
needs a lot of attention,
because I think if you dissect a
lot of school related shootings,
the common element tends to be
some severe mental health
related areas that have led to
someone who has obviously become
or gotten possession of a
firearm, and that combination
turns into a deadly event for
for those pieces.
But to get back to you, I think
your original question about
funding, you know, policing is
always willing to and supports
additional funding that is going
to enhance, whether it's
programming or intelligence led
information, to help sort of
understand where, you know, the
gun, the real gun issues are
lying.
You know, I had a conversation
just the other day talking about
the importance of intelligence
led policing, understanding
again, where are the flow of
illegal firearms, whether
they're handguns or long guns
coming in once those firearms
are in our country, how are they
being, you know, dispersed and
shared?
Again, I don't want to sit here
at this table and just pretend
that policing need all the
dollars.
There's other areas again,
justice.
There's social services that
really need to be supported
because this is a this is a
community based response to
crime that goes on in our
communities.
>> All right.
Very quickly, I would like to
know one of the most important
things is knowing where we're
headed and sort of what are
those metrics are to get us to
what we consider success.
So five years from now, what
does success actually look like
to you?
>> Well, from my point of view,
you know, the the principal
measure of success are the crime
stats and where we are in terms
of homicides in particular, but
also other gun related crimes.
Suicide for us is a big metric.
And that's a huge problem that
doesn't get nearly enough
attention.
And I'm sure in smaller
communities, I know growing up
in Niagara, it's a much bigger
issue than some of the things
that get attention in big
cities.
So we have to look at the data,
we have to look at those
trajectories.
And I think there is a big gap,
in my view, between what people
think risks are and what the
risks really are.
So while a lot of the oxygen
gets sucked up by big cities and
the problems in big cities,
there are other problems like
domestic violence, like suicide,
like youth violence in smaller
communities that often don't get
the attention that they deserve.
And the final thing I wanted to
say is when we look at the rise
of hate crime in particular,
when we look at the potential
for political violence, there's
a real intersection with access
to firearms that we really can't
overlook.
>> If you get the last word.
>> That's a really complicated
question.
Again, you know, how do we how
do we measure success if we can
see less crime being reported,
if we can see a dramatic
decrease in intimate partner
violence, crime that are related
to guns, because in parts of
this province and certainly in
parts of this country, it is
getting to a point where it is
very serious.
And, you know, Wendy also
mentioned some of the, you know,
the racial divides.
I think if we as society started
to sort of see more in common
with each other and became less
hateful, you know, made attempts
to sort of understand, know who
your neighbours are, because
there is so much more we have in
common than differences.
And I know it's a little bit
outside of maybe the topic we
were talking about today, but
it's really it's part of just
like this table is around, it's,
it's a lot of different areas
that we need to sort of move
into to lower the temperature
and to, you know, just really be
more decent to, to one another.
>> I think a lovely place to
leave our conversation.
Chief Campbell, Wendy, thank you
so much for your insights.
Really appreciate it.
>> Thank you very much.
>> Thanks.
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### 多伦多枪击案：数字暴力、社会现实与青年机会缺失

2024年11月11日，多伦多Queen Street West的一间录音室发生了一起涉及多个帮派的枪击事件。事发当晚，一场本应是音乐交流的聚会演变为近百发枪响的暴力冲突，所幸无人受伤。监控录像显示，在枪击发生前，一群年轻人在室内展示并把玩枪械。随后，三名嫌疑人乘坐盗窃车辆抵达并向工作室外开火，现场人员随即展开还击。混乱中，有人将枪支丢弃在附近巷道和垃圾箱内。警方最终查获至少16支枪械，包括手枪和攻击型武器。这种“数字暴力助推器”——通过直播等方式升级的显性或隐性威胁，可能导致“复仇式枪击”和连锁暴力。此次事件的起因被描述为，来自多伦多西北部的群体，因其在录音室的活动被中部城区的一个“地盘”声称者直播而感到冒犯，进而引发冲突。这种暴力事件的背后，往往与有组织的武器贩运紧密相连，因为枪支并非免费。音乐工作室本应是创意和安全的空间，但此次事件的冲击尤为深远。一名刚搬入不久的经营者表示，曾担心工作室因此遭受重创，而现场工程师们则被迫躲藏。探讨音乐是否反映或驱动暴力时，受访者认为，音乐创作往往是对现实生活中已发生事件的反映，而非事件的起因。尽管存在将嘻哈音乐与暴力联系起来的刻板印象，但核心问题并非音乐类型本身，而是歌词是否包含挑衅性内容、威胁或侮辱，从而加剧紧张局势。

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>> On November 11th, 2024,
gunfire broke out at a recording
studio on Queen Street West in
Toronto.
Police say rival gangs were
involved.
I got insight into the factors
that fuelled this violence and
how people are trying to make
change.
On November 11th, 2024, a
shootout broke out just off of
Queen Street West.
Right behind me in this
alleyway.
What started off as a late night
jam session in a music studio
ended up with nearly a hundred
shots fired.
Amazingly, no one was injured.
Now, surveillance video later
showed a group of young men
inside the studio prior to the
shooting, holding an even
dancing with the guns.
Police say three people then
arrived in a stolen vehicle and
opened fire outside the studio.
They were met by return fire.
People scattered toss guns into
nearby laneways and garbage
bins.
By the end of it, police seized
at least 16 guns, including
handguns and assault style
weapons.
>> The gathering was supposed to
be a party.
Who brings a gun to a party?
But we know that it was live
streamed that the group that was
there, down on Queen Street in
the studio, came from the
northwest of Toronto.
There is a group in central
Toronto that claims that area of
the studio as their turf, and
were offended because this was
all live streamed.
And this is one of the things
the ace talks about in terms of
what we call digital violence
accelerants, explicit or
implicit threats that evolve to
a situation where there's going
to be gun violence.
>> In a matter of minutes.
>> My understanding, in terms of
the research that we've done,
because we're trying to mitigate
this as a clear and present
threat to what we call get back
killings and reciprocal
violence.
So the party started at about 10
to 11, and by 20 after 11.
Three of the individuals from
central Toronto had come down
and 100 rounds were fired.
And eventually in, you know,
thank God nobody was hurt.
And there's still people
outstanding from that matter.
>> Some people can look at this
probably with your background
and say, this is perhaps some
form of Organised crime in some
sense.
>> 100% because those firearms
aren't free, right?
And so if we want to begin then
to look at Organised weapons
trafficking, definitely there's
a connection to it.
>> The Queen West shootout could
easily have been much worse for
the neighbourhood and for
Toronto's music community.
However, this one hit close to
home for a lot of young artists
in Ontario's capital city.
A music studio is supposed to be
a creative space, some would say
even a safe space.
So what happens now?
Here's the track.
>> Yes, sir.
>> How's it going?
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
>> It's a recording studio, so,
like, anybody can come here and
make music.
I kind of just, like, created a
space for this, like, people to
be able to make music without,
like, breaking their pockets.
You might see some of your
friends here, or you might see a
famous rapper here.
It's more of like also like a
meeting grounds for people.
>> Let's go.
>> The shooting that happened,
obviously, even just pulling up,
you can still kind of see
remnants of it.
Was this studio operating at the
time that that happened?
>> I literally just moved in
maybe like a month before.
It was horrible.
I thought it was done.
I was like, this is terrible.
I spent so much money, like
trying to renovate and do
whatever, whatever, and like
shooting happens.
I wasn't here, I was in Los
Angeles, but some of my
engineers were here, and they
ended up just like locking
themselves in the bathroom.
>> So let's, let's help clarify
it.
Was there a there's a studio
upstairs that's separate from.
>> Yeah.
There was.
Yeah, there was a studio
upstairs, two floors upstairs.
>> Okay.
And that's where.
>> The that's where.
>> It happened.
The shootout.
Yeah.
What were those messages like?
I'm just curious, like, what
were the messages from your
engineers to you being like,
what's happening?
>> Yeah, they were frightened as
like they were scared.
Rightfully so.
But they were safe.
Like, yeah, but it's just, yeah,
not something that anybody
should like kind of go through.
>> Do you think the music
reflects the violence or is it
driving.
>> It when there's violence
behind music or whatever, when
it gets like tied together, it's
like it's the real life stuff
first.
Like the music is after the real
life stuff is already happening.
>> What do you mean by real life
stuff?
>> It's not like someone's
making a song and then violence
is happening.
After that.
They're making songs about stuff
that's happening in real life.
>> Do you find there's an unfair
connection between sort of hip
hop and violence that when
people see hip hop videos,
music, they automatically are
like, okay, well, there is a
connection.
These shootings, for example,
that shooting is not an anomaly.
It's not a one off.
>> I don't know, I guess a
little bit, but it's
understandable.
Music should just be
entertainment.
Like it's an entertainment
business.
At the end of the day.
>> There is this stereotype that
there is a sort of a connection
to violence and hip hop.
Does hip hop and music have a
violence problem?
>> I don't think so.
I think what the issue is,
because if you look at the
lyrics, right, so are those
lyrics provocative or in other
ways conveying threats or
insults that then is going to
raise the stakes.
So that's where it is, not
necessarily the genre itself.
It's what you choose to use it
for in terms of conveying things
that could cause a problem.
>> As someone.
>> Who works directly with.
>> Youth, how much of this
conversation and the problems
here is really about a lack of
opportunity for youth?
>> This is all about a lack of
opportunity.
I teach part time in a police
foundations and public safety
course at one of the local
colleges.
One of my students, 1819 years
old, came to me and said, sir, I
just put out 40 resumes looking
for a job and I can't land a
part time job.
>> Youth unemployment.
>> Youth unemployment, 100%.
And the point with him is he's
in college, he's exercising the
right decisions and options and
he can't.
And what he said to me is that I
understand why these kids carry
guns or sell drugs.
It's the only job.
You don't need a resume.
You don't have to subject
yourself to an interview.
And you're always the successful
candidate.
That to me was profound.
>> But how do you turn that
negativity into positivity?
>> That's just me.
Naturally, I'm just naturally a
positive person.
I like to help people, and I
want the entire economy of our
Toronto music scene to go up.
>> Obviously, there's a lot of
young people who are eager and
hungry.
They're in this space working on
music.
What could this scene
potentially look like?
>> I don't like 2016.
We must have had at least like
15 artists that were touring
around the world and doing a
bunch of crazy stuff, and
they're all like, upcoming
people.
I feel like that's about to
happen again right now.
Toronto hip hop was looked at a
certain way before, just like
how everybody else knows it.
And now it's like it's a real
like positive group of people
that all mess with each other.
And it's just like, it's the new
Toronto.
It's a bunch of young kids that
are like making some noise and
they're all performing at these
big shows and like meeting big
artists and like, yeah, it's a
bunch of kids doing cool stuff.
And if you've got some type of
pull in the music industry and
you want to get involved in
something really cool before it
kind of takes off, and you just
got to watch like, come see
what's going on in the city.
I love my city, man.
I love this city to death.
>> I'm Jeyan.
Thanks for watching The Rundown.
What topics would you like to
see us tackle?
Send us your suggestions at
TheRundown@TVO.org.
Or as always, you can leave us a
comment on YouTube.
Until then, I will see you
tomorrow.
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### 枪支暴力根源：机会缺失与刻板印象的打破

探讨枪支暴力问题时，一个被反复提及的核心因素是“青年缺乏机会”。一位在警务基础课程任教的老师分享道，他的一名18-19岁的学生在投递了40份工作简历后仍一无所获，学生因此表示理解为何一些年轻人会选择携带枪支或从事毒品交易，因为这被视为“唯一的工作”，不需要简历、面试，且“总是成功的候选人”。这种缺乏合法经济途径的困境，被视为枪支暴力滋生的温床。将音乐，特别是嘻哈音乐，与暴力直接挂钩的刻板印象也值得商榷。受访者认为，音乐本身是娱乐，而当暴力与音乐相结合时，往往是现实生活中的暴力事件先发生，音乐才后继创作，成为对现实的反映。关键不在于音乐流派，而在于歌词内容是否具有挑衅性、威胁性或侮辱性，从而升高了冲突的风险。许多年轻艺术家正积极通过建立平价的音乐创作空间，如录音棚，来促进音乐场景的经济发展，并期望重现2016年多伦多嘻哈音乐的辉煌时期。如今，一个更积极、互助的音乐社群正在崛起，代表着“新多伦多”的面貌。许多年轻人在城市中崭露头角，用音乐“制造噪音”，并获得与知名艺术家合作的机会，预示着该行业即将迎来新一轮的腾飞。

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>> So let's, let's help clarify
it.
Was there a there's a studio
upstairs that's separate from.
>> Yeah.
There was.
Yeah, there was a studio
upstairs, two floors upstairs.
>> Okay.
And that's where.
>> The that's where.
>> It happened.
The shootout.
Yeah.
What were those messages like?
I'm just curious, like, what
were the messages from your
engineers to you being like,
what's happening?
>> Yeah, they were frightened as
like they were scared.
Rightfully so.
But they were safe.
Like, yeah, but it's just, yeah,
not something that anybody
should like kind of go through.
>> Do you think the music
reflects the violence or is it
driving.
>> It when there's violence
behind music or whatever, when
it gets like tied together, it's
like it's the real life stuff
first.
Like the music is after the real
life stuff is already happening.
>> What do you mean by real life
stuff?
>> It's not like someone's
making a song and then violence
is happening.
After that.
They're making songs about stuff
that's happening in real life.
>> Do you find there's an unfair
connection between sort of hip
hop and violence that when
people see hip hop videos,
music, they automatically are
like, okay, well, there is a
connection.
These shootings, for example,
that shooting is not an anomaly.
It's not a one off.
>> I don't know, I guess a
little bit, but it's
understandable.
Music should just be
entertainment.
Like it's an entertainment
business.
At the end of the day.
>> There is this stereotype that
there is a sort of a connection
to violence and hip hop.
Does hip hop and music have a
violence problem?
>> I don't think so.
I think what the issue is,
because if you look at the
lyrics, right, so are those
lyrics provocative or in other
ways conveying threats or
insults that then is going to
raise the stakes.
So that's where it is, not
necessarily the genre itself.
It's what you choose to use it
for in terms of conveying things
that could cause a problem.
>> As someone.
>> Who works directly with.
>> Youth, how much of this
conversation and the problems
here is really about a lack of
opportunity for youth?
>> This is all about a lack of
opportunity.
I teach part time in a police
foundations and public safety
course at one of the local
colleges.
One of my students, 1819 years
old, came to me and said, sir, I
just put out 40 resumes looking
for a job and I can't land a
part time job.
>> Youth unemployment.
>> Youth unemployment, 100%.
And the point with him is he's
in college, he's exercising the
right decisions and options and
he can't.
And what he said to me is that I
understand why these kids carry
guns or sell drugs.
It's the only job.
You don't need a resume.
You don't have to subject
yourself to an interview.
And you're always the successful
candidate.
That to me was profound.
>> But how do you turn that
negativity into positivity?
>> That's just me.
Naturally, I'm just naturally a
positive person.
I like to help people, and I
want the entire economy of our
Toronto music scene to go up.
>> Obviously, there's a lot of
young people who are eager and
hungry.
They're in this space working on
music.
What could this scene
potentially look like?
>> I don't like 2016.
We must have had at least like
15 artists that were touring
around the world and doing a
bunch of crazy stuff, and
they're all like, upcoming
people.
I feel like that's about to
happen again right now.
Toronto hip hop was looked at a
certain way before, just like
how everybody else knows it.
And now it's like it's a real
like positive group of people
that all mess with each other.
And it's just like, it's the new
Toronto.
It's a bunch of young kids that
are like making some noise and
they're all performing at these
big shows and like meeting big
artists and like, yeah, it's a
bunch of kids doing cool stuff.
And if you've got some type of
pull in the music industry and
you want to get involved in
something really cool before it
kind of takes off, and you just
got to watch like, come see
what's going on in the city.
I love my city, man.
I love this city to death.
>> I'm Jeyan.
Thanks for watching The Rundown.
What topics would you like to
see us tackle?
Send us your suggestions at
TheRundown@TVO.org.
Or as always, you can leave us a
comment on YouTube.
Until then, I will see you
tomorrow.
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