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Re: 'Local gun club members shoot back at mayor's proposed ban,' News, June 4.

I'm glad to hear the comment from Ward 42 (Scarborough-Rouge River) Councillor Raymond Cho about the closing of gun clubs.

At the same time I have a question for Cho. Why did you become a boxer? It is a violent sport. Should nobody be allowed to box because of his experience?

My neighbours are sending their children twice a week to kung fu lessons. With Cho's logic, should we close all clubs and schools with fighting sports, which are brutal, and in the future may stir impulses toward violence.

Should Cho propose the City of Toronto close all clubs and schools where children at an early age participate in violent sports? In the councillor's opinion, gun clubs on city property are the source of gun crime in Toronto. At the same time, clubs on private property are not.

Is this called logic or a double standard?

I will be happy if closing these two gun clubs will solve the root problems of gun crime. I would like to hear in the future, from Cho, that his decision was responsible for a drop in gun-related crimes.

With the present logic, the City of Toronto should not attract movie productions to Toronto as most movies have nudity and violence. We should also close strip clubs, casinos, TV stations (any time, any day you can watch crime movies and many children spend their free time at a TV with no parent supervision), violent computer games and LCBO stores (many crimes are due to an influence of drugs and alcohol).

This list can be increased over and over.

But these businesses are too big to be attacked, even by the City of Toronto. They are cash cows for the city. What can be proposed to decrease the alarming number of stabbings? Should we close all kitchen supply stores?

Yet, I do not see any logical, positive action or programs even willing to target the root cause of violence.

Adam Popkiewicz