The gun registry is an important and useful tool…
Hmmm…speaking as useless tool himself.
Thankfully, the vote strongly favoured scrapping the long-gun registry, which was nothing more than a big fat tax grab.
…the federal auditor general that found that final tab to implement the program would ring in at more than $1-billion, dramatically more than the $2-million original estimate.
The gun registry does not make me feel safer; it never did. Criminals don’t register illegal weapons, and they’re the only ones I’d be worried about. Now if they’d just scrap the rest of the gun registry.
“Urban Canadians are passionately in favour, a lot of them, of a registry. . . . They wonder why anyone in the city would actually need a gun,” the Yukon MP said before the vote.
Excuse me, but you don’t speak for this urban Canadian. Actually I wonder why any sane person would want more government control and intrusion in our lives.
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For those who wonder who has been pushing the cruel hoax that the registry provides any public safety, here’s the voting record:
http://howdtheyvote.ca/vote.php?id=781
Thanks for that link, Bill. Very interesting…I think the NDP surprised me a bit — I didn’t expect so many “Yeas”. The Bloc-heads voted exactly as I expected (and the Conservatives too, for that matter).
I’m usually fairly supportive of police forces in general, but I’m not buying their bullshit support of the gun registry. As far as background checks — did they not already do that before they hand out licences?
I still say it’s also a tax grab for the government. The cops use it as a property grab to add to their arsenal, I suppose.
The registrey was not a tax grab – it was designed (in conjunction with a licencing system which outlaws non criminal possession) as a property grab. It was nothing more than an inventory list of lawful arms to be collected in future incremental confiscations. We saw This in Toronto last month where their soviet police chief sent cops door to door confiscating sportsman’s arms because their licence had expired and renewals had not been sent yet.
These were all registered licenced law abiding people, not crack gangsters – the state (AKA vindictive petty bureaucrats like the GTA police chief) used the system unilaterally, arbitrarily and quite abusively to steal the sporting arms of lawful owners on the basis of paperwork filing technicalities. Breach of public trust? I don’t think so, this is what the registry was designed to do – provide constant legal liability, official intimidation and bureaucratic harassment to lawful gun owners and by extension, trim back their numbers until it seems safe for a total ban. This is how the Nazis and the soviets did it.
Regardless of what happens to the registry the real problem, and admitted constitutional breach, is the licencing system. All we really needed were background checks and a certification of worthiness to use a firearm for all lawful purposes. The liberals turned that into a licence to possess by criminalizing non criminal ownership.
With the government openly showing its contempt and malice toward lawful firearms owners it’s no surprise there is less than full compliance to licence and register. (honest RCMP estimates peg it at 20-30%) Many many owners (millions) saw this venal abuse coming a decade ago and never put themselves or their guns in the system or did not put all their guns in the system. This is a huge ticking time bomb that faces every government. What do you do with these millions of otherwise honest peaceful citizens who are now criminals by paperwork crimes. Do you pull a soviet style police round up? What if you target innocent people? Government legal liabilities for enforcing compliance is staggering.
This is why theMartin Liberals avoided the registry compliance gad and pretended everything was in order. Tories have issued one amnesty after another – they know there are lots out there who don’t trust government motives and never have (or will) register.
Scrapping the registry is just half the job. The licence system needs a deep rewrite to decriminalize simple non criminal possession of long arms owned continuously for a decade or more.
Typical Tories – job half done.
BTW Taliban Jack really is a commie extremist – when this law was on final reading all NDP members voted against the registry – except Svend.
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