Mayor Miller hates the Pixies

Hey, whatever happened to our uber-progressive downtown, NDP mayor??!! First Mayor Miller opts to clear Nathan Phillips square of Homeless people. Then, after a summer of gun violence, he decides to get tough on crime. I mean, tough on ... punks?


Punks like our lady of love (pictured above)?

Already, reports are pouring in from community workers and criminologists that the new Liberal "ban on guns" is mostly smoke and mirrors. Take this from a recent CBC.ca story, for instance:

Anthony Doob, a University of Toronto criminologist, said he's skeptical that taking the additional step of a total ban would help much.

"We've got lots of laws (already)," Doob told the Canadian Press. "We've got laws about carrying, we've got laws about ownership, we've got laws about transfers of ownership."

Rev. Harry Lehotsky, an activist in Winnipeg, echoed Landau's views, saying a ban will make no difference.

"They're illegal anyway," Lehotsky said. "The cops have a million ways, reasons, to take those guns away from these guys already, so it's totally irrelevant."

But don't say that to progressive lefty David Miller. In a story in the Toronto Star today, which also contains quotes from Liberal-gun-ban skeptics, Miller comes out enthusiastically swinging for Martin's plan, declaring:

"Guns turn punks into killers."

But are punks really the problem? One entry on dictionary.com helpfully defines a punk as "A young person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture group". That seems a little broad. In "street" lingo, of course, punks tend to be those protesting, angry, vaguely lefty -- sometimes even anarchist! -- people who are in perpetual turf wars with neo-Nazis. Then again, Mayor Miller's electorate in North York may not be aware of the "street" definition...

But maybe the problem isn't that Mayor Miller, in his days as a Harvard economics student, missed out the punk movement. Maybe he just misheard. Maybe he was listening to the Pixies' 'Sad Punk' the other day but couldn't make out the words:

I smell smoke/ that comes from a gun/ named extintion/ it was a long time ago/ could have happened to anyone/ he was struck by a bullet/ and he melted into fluid named extintion

...

I read something/ about a son of a gun/ named extinction