Long Gun Registry Back In The News

Filed Under (Everything, Politics) by Tyler on 16-11-2007

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The long gone registry is back in the news. The conservatives are once again talking about scrapping it. Forget the fact that I have wanted this gone for some time -I mean criminals are not going to register their guns- the most telling fact in this is the second last paragraph:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry, which was supposed to cost $2 million when the Liberal government introduced it in 1995. Its cost wound up being roughly $1 billion.

Two million ballooned to one billion?!?!?!?!? What the crap? I mean quite honestly if you paid someone $20,000 to renovate your house, and after the job was finished it had ended up costing $10,000,000 you would be uber pissed. If you weren’t uber pissed then something would be wrong with you. Very wrong with you, Liberal wrong with you…

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3 Responses to “Long Gun Registry Back In The News”

  1. Tyler on 16 Nov 2007 at 7:01 pm #

    Hey Tyler.
    Sure sure, the program cost way more than it was supposed to. It looks bad, smells of bad politics and takes away your right to pop into the Walmart on your way home from work to pick up a new Winchester. Is that what you’re saying?

    I’m not up on my Canadian gun registration laws, but keeping guns out of circulation by making them tough to get makes a lot of sense as a general principal. No?

  2. Tyler on 16 Nov 2007 at 7:12 pm #

    The short answer is No. It doesn’t prevent people from buying guns legally or owning guns, or using guns. (Note: the long guy registry is only for hunting rifles and shotguns), assault rifles (automatic) and hand guns are illegal in Canada.

    All the registry does is register the gun. It does nothing to prevent people from owning them. The cancellation of the registry would not mean that you could buy a gun without a license, it would simply mean that there wouldn’t be the irrational overhead of registering it.

    The real issue is that guns who are registered to Canadians are not used in criminal activities. Criminals do not register their guns.

  3. kari on 17 Nov 2007 at 11:18 am #

    nice to see a government actually keep a promise. McSqinty take note!

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