Money to stop gun crime

I enjoy perusing Castanet’s letters and goings on in your city, my former hometown.

Re. Huge guns and drug bust (Castanet, March 14) and Feds tackle gun crime (Castanet, March 15)

How ironic it was recently when I read two letters about a huge drugs and guns bust with no charges, and the funding of $2 million for Kelowna from our ever so generous federal government to go towards gun crime prevention.

What are the deliverables attached to this $2 million?

How about putting that funding towards the court system—prosecutors, so they can have the resources to present the necessary information to the courts to charge and (put) these people in jail?

I agree with so many of the letters about money being spent frivolously with no sense of what is working and what is not. I’m happy to see a couple of Vancouver Island communities starting to push back on the provincial and federal governments, yet sadly one of these was a result of a gun altercation involving a small business owner trying to protect his property.

I’m sure that will only be the beginning of more altercations like that to come, as we all get tired of the increasing crime and violence in all B.C. communities, with the governments turning a blind eye, or in the case of (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau and now (B.C. Premier David) Eby, writing a cheque.

L Sharp, North Vancouver