You literally said that immigrants are the problem with gun violence....
That's not exactly what he said. I've gone into the history of urban gangs before, but summarizing.
We had little in the way of gang violence up through the early to mid seventies. Chief Vince Bevans, who was the Chief of police in Ottawa did a report in the nineties on this, and remarked on how gun violence was virtually unknown back then. But then we started bringing in these temporary foreign workers, mostly Jamaican (Haitian in Quebec) ladies to be housekeepers and babysitters for rich people, or at least, the upper middle class. The Liberals then decided to let them apply for citizenship. They did, and the first thing they did, of course, was apply to sponsor their kids. Their kids had not seen mom for years, except for rare visits, and had been raised by grannie. Suddenly they yanked up north to live with a woman they hardly know in a country they don't know, and where it's cold as
**** and where their educational achievements were sub-par. Naturally a certain number of them resented this, and naturally, teenage boys hung around together, resentful and angry, and doing poorly at school - with mom still working full time and no father.
Jamaican street gangs were born (and Haitans in Montreal). Gang violence took on a whole new meaning because these teenagers had been brought up in lands where violence was endemic and brutal. The more that came over the more gang members. By the 1990s we already had a full throated street gang problem with shootouts and drive bys. It was a similar problem when we started bringing over piles of Somalians. Again, you had young people ripped from everything they knew into a cold environment where they were well below the curve in school, felt like outsiders (because they WERE) hung around together, and began to get into trouble. Thus was 'swarming' born. Out west it's a different matter, with kids from different asian countries doing different kinds of things. Then the natives started to get in on the act out west, forming their own version of the Crips and Bloods.
Now the gangs are formed, and infest certain low income neighborhoods. And they recruit among young minority men in those neighborhoods.
Most of the gun violence comes from these groups.