Synchro Coach

There is a lot of discussion around the topic and some of it uses the number of stabbings in Calgary Clubs as a justification for more governmental intervention. First off I live and work in the city, secondly I have been up close and personal with the issue as my brother was stabbed ten times in the back and head at one of those clubs. My brother is not invloved in any gang activity and was actually doing promotional work for the club the night he was there. He was a victim of malicious and hateful violence. This violence, gun or knife related, does not stem from violent political systems nor can it be stoped by assanine governmental attempts at control. Violence is as old as human history. The best we can do is attempt to manage its impact on us. That management needs to stem from responsiable behaviour on the part of government, police, and Club/Bar owners. If Calgary night clubs put more efforts into ensuring there was security in their clubs (cameras, metal detection systems, fully trained bouncers) the impact of city violence would be controled. There is no easy answer, and if there is one it is not 'Knife Control'. Responsible bar ownership, greater police invlovement to manage the growing ethnic tensions, gang activity and drug related crime, and a overhaull of the penial system to ensure that knife related offences are treated as more serious offences, are all ways to begin limiting the violence.

Finally something has come from endless lobby pressure on the federal government. There is approval for a National Sex Offender Registry. It remains to be seen how effective (or uneffective) this registry will be, and I think its effectiveness will be tied to how sizeable a majority the Liberal party has in the next election, but it is about time that the government addressed the need for a system tracking sex offenders. It is sad it came after a gun registry, which has done nothing but suck money from valuable areas, and is only in existence to stop the 200 annual homicides by a gun. (Taken from Government Report 1994 on Gun Related violence) 77.5 women in every 100,000 are assaulted every year...the math speaks for itself.