Canadians Blame Judges For Gun Violence Following the Dec. 26 shooting of a 15-year-old girl, Toronto residents overwhelmingly indicated that lax judges are a “major factor” spurring gun violence. One of the suspects charged in that killing of Jane Creba in a shooting that wounded six other people was out on parole at the time of the incident. Some 76 percent of respondents to the Ipsos Reid survey, conducted on behalf of the National Post and Global News, believe that lenient judges are allowing gun crime to flourish in Canada’s cities. “People are really wondering what these judges are doing,” said Darrel Bricker, president of Ipsos Reid. “They’re [the respondents] are about getting tough on crime and increasing sentences.”