Read it all from Patrick Ross:
The RCMP has different motivations for wanting to declare the long-gun registry to be successful. After all, the gun registry is currently administered by the RCMP itself. [...]
Even Holland’s favourite talking point — the support for the program by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police — has absorbed a black eye recently, as it was revealed that the organization accepted a donation of $115,000 from the CGI group of companies.
The CGI group produces the software for the gun registry.
That makes for a massive conflict of interest, and raises questions of whether or not any conditions were placed on the donation.[...]
“It is difficult to understand why the chiefs of police support the long-gun registry,” Simon Fraser University Criminologist Dr Gary Mauser once remarked. “[It] has so many errors that relying upon it puts the lives of rank-and-file police members at risk. This is a classic database problem: garbage in, gospel out. The police should know better.”
“Millions of entries are incorrect or missing,” he continued. “Most striking, less than half of all long guns in Canada are in the registry.”
“The long-gun registry does worse – it misdirects the police,” he said. [...]
“When I spoke at the Ontario Police College, one of the instructors told me privately that trusting the registry was a way to get good police officers killed.”
You really should read the whole thing. It’s all lies and conflict of interest. And Ajax-Pickering MP Mark Holland (@markhollandmp on Twitter) supports the registry, even though he’s fully aware of Dr Mauser’s remarks, which were made before the Public Safety Committee — where Mark Holland is Vice-Chair!
Also, write your MPs — especially if you have the misfortune of being stuck with an idiot Liberal MP. Contact info here.
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That is great and useful information.
VBR,
Ted Gorlsine
Fat lot of good the gun registery did when James Rosco shot the four mounties. Rosco wasn’t even supposed to have a gun never mind 4 or more that were found on his property. This guy was a bully and a troublemaker and was in constant altercations with the police….they knew what he was capable of but could not get anything to keep him in jail. The registery doesn’t keep anyone safe…..if some nut is driving by with a gun in the car and shoots you….how does registering that weapon prevent you from getting shot. I think that front line police should just assume that there is weapons in a establishment until proven otherwise…most times when they go to a call there is or has been violence involved and people are in a adjutated state and are unpredicatable. No registery can prevent something that involves human emotions or fantasy thinking.
Good points, all. And registry supporters always like to bring up the case of Gamil Gharbi (aka Marc Lepine) too.
This useless Chretien Liberal legacy has to die.
And for the RCMP Cheifs to be actively interferring in the politics of the laws they are tasked to enforce, is dangerously close to having a police state.
Yep, if the cops and the military are the only ones with guns, we could be really screwed.
This fact must also be repeated.
The confiscation of long guns is not a conspiracy theory:
kursk said…
When Alan Rock was Justice minister, he publicly stated that the gun registry was a plank in the eventual disarming of the Canadian population.
“I came to Ottawa in November with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers” — Alan Rock, “Taking
Aim on Guns” Maclean’s, April 25, 1994, pg.12
Alan Rock
Switzerland understands the key to freedom is being able to defend yourself.
It has also been reported the RCMP has a $100M budget to administer the LGR. So, financially, it is in their interests to keep it alive.
“C-68 (now the Firearms Act) has little to do with gun control or crime control, but it is the first step necessary to begin the social re-engineering of Canada.” Sharon Carstairs, Liberal Senator
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