Tough on Crime? What bollocks

This is why I can't stand the Conservative government. In our streets

Assuming for a second that this isn't entirely reactionary to what has always been a problem, but has just recently become more notorious because of some tragic results in BC. It is a tragedy.

For the record, a drive by shooting is a lot of things - the least of which is an offence which is committed with a fire-arm. Didn't they fix this last year? I have excerpted the section below.

1) The minimum penalty for attempted murder (you know, an attempt to take a life) is five years. That is one more year than the minimum for drive-bys.

2) If the intent of a drive by isn't to murder someone, those people in BC have REALLY LOUSY AIM. Regardless, 85(1)(c) of the code notes:

"...whether or not the person causes or means to cause bodily harm to any person as a result of using the firearm."

So, for all other "use" offences for firearms. For example, if you rob a dude with your fist, the penalty is X. If you rob a dude with a firearm, the penalty is X+1 year.

So, these gang bangers are going to be dissuaded from their drive by's by the prospect of an extra three years? Puh-lease.

239. (1) Every person who attempts by any means to commit murder is guilty of an indictable offence and liable:
(a) if a restricted firearm or prohibited firearm is used in the commission of the offence or if any firearm is used in the commission of the offence and the offence is committed for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with, a criminal organization, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of

(i) in the case of a first offence, five years, and
(ii) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, seven years;
(a.1) in any other case where a firearm is used in the commission of the offence, to imprisonment for life and to a minimum punishment of imprisonment for a term of four years; and

(b) in any other case, to imprisonment for life.