Update: Mom gunned down in Surrey shooting, child escapes death!

will do Sanjay, thanks

This law and order thing seems to be a problem in UK too and of course we have the elite politico's that repeat and repeat Tough on Crime.

Drugs are a big problem and there is a need of some budding Eliot Ness's to hit the drug lords hard fast and with full venom. Maybe its time to equally address the war on terror and the war on drugs. Oh my wish is for a few Judge Dreds as well.  

this type of thing has to stop in England and in the US.

Thanks to you both for your comments.

Drug violence is awful

I agree Pat, but you have to realise many in British Columbia voted and wanted "Touchy Feely, Kissy Face, Bunnys and Gumdrops in their Quest for Rehabilitation of Criminals, cause the Social Left felt Prison is never the answer, and with revolving door Justice, now many of the same Voters are outraged that it doesn't work!  There is a reason why British Columbia is called the LEFT COAST!

A name suitable for this Province, where Voters lefty social programs want it all, and Criminals are only too glad to take advantage of it!   Just wait till the 2010 Olympics, you aint seen nothing yet!

I don't think Canadian society needs this kind of thing.

No Society Does Poko, thanks for the comment

Probably the Politicians are connected to the crime....is why they act slow. You think Canada has problems...we have lots of evidence Bush did 911 killing thousands of Americans but we can't do anything about it.

Politicians in this day and age Barry are not good guys....they are bad guys.....we vote for...and to think we get anything good from them is a fantasy.  Drugs happen because people have no jobs, so they use drugs to escape....and to sell drugs to make money....The issue is not about Prisons...because if we had decent jobs....people would not be breaking the law going to Prison.......

There needs to be a worldwide movement of support in creating Jobs for people.....When there are no jobs.....education fails.....because people say...why get an education when people who do have educations don't have a job..... This job problem needs to be identified and we must act to make and think and develop means to support the employment of everyone if we are to have a society....

Rev. Jermano

I dunno, I read and witness many selling Drugs, who seem to be doing okay financially around here, living the Scarface life, they certainly do not seem to want for anything!

Explain this to me,..... what does it take to stop this??? If we have harder sentences will that work? double them, triple them,.... what? Should we take all their amassed goods away and throw the proceeds to paying for victim compensation and Policing costs?? Should we open up the law restrictions and provide police with the ability to circumvent this kind of escalation?? Should we have a three hits your out set up or major crime first time long jail sentence??? What ???

I'm a old school Trudeau throw back liberal caught between bleeding heart freedoms and policies and taking the bastards out behind the barn and shooting them. Its grinding down the public morality issues with the violence and loss of safety. This is terrorism in its most simple and psychological worst. The problem with Canadian law seems to be the need for rights and liberty for all and that includes the criminals and those that hold society at ransom.

The fact is we are getting a good lessons at the feet of criminals who, if not physically, emotionally terrorize us in our communities and homes. Whatever the woman may have done, did she deserve this?? Most of all did her innocent 4 year old deserve this load of pain and memory in his life???

Something concrete has to be done and even from the point that maybe the people getting shot, can stay alive,  go to jail and have a second chance to straighten out their messed up lives.

This is such a tragic event - how sad.

she's been identified....

cbc

Thanks everyone for visiting and your comments to this story

Does no one remember the lessons of prohibition?  There was blood in the streets, machine gun drive by shootings and open gang warefare in America while in Canada at the same time there was relative peace.  What was different about these two countries?  We had the same basic culture, economy, values and political/legal system.  The difference?  The US made a popular drug illegal. 

When alcohol became illegal organized crime was left to serve the millions of "addicts" their drugs.  Due to the nature of competitive criminal organizations they fought for territority in often bloody turf wars.  The police tried to shut down these drug dealers.  They tried really hard but could not win that era's War On Drugs. 

Organized criminals were willing to take whatever damage was inflicted on them by police and rival gangs because the amount of money made selling this drug was worth the risks.  IT ALWAYS WILL BE.  How did the violence finally come to an end?  Tougher sentences? No.  More police on the streets?  No.  Electing "get tough on crime" politicians? No.  None of the "solutions" popular then and being touted today worked...not one bit! 

The only way they ended the open gang wars was to make the drug they sold legal again.  As soon as alcohol prohibition ended so did the violence in the streets.  Nothing is different today; not even the real solution.  We could spend 100% of our GDP fighting the war on drugs and we would still lose. 

"Polite society" will always fight moral battles to inflict their values on the rest of society and that is fine but it is time they stopped doing it with our tax dollars and let the police and courts deal with real crimes in society.