Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:06:00
Canadian Firearms Registry a big fat failure
Two billion dollars and no results.
Canada’s homicide rate and number of gang-related murders has increased since the federal government’s firearms registry and licensing program was implemented, an indication that the program has failed to improve public safety, according to Hubris in the North, The Canadian Firearms Registry, a new report from independent research organization The Fraser Institute. “In 1995, the government promised Canadians that the gun registry would reduce total criminal violence, suicide and domestic abuse, not just gun violence,” said Gary Mauser, author of the report, senior fellow with The Fraser Institute, and a professor at Simon Fraser University. “But the legislation has failed to do that, primarily because it relies upon public-health research to justify a moralistic approach to firearms that exaggerates the danger of citizens owning firearms through pseudoscientific research methods.”
I know I wrote about this in the past. Damn, it was in 2002. Back then it was only $860 million.
Everyone I know who owns a gun predicted this would be a colossal failure. Not only has no gun crime been prevented and billions wasted, the crime rate went up. That’s not good. Scrap it. Use the money for more law enforcement to break the gangs. Stop blaming the guns and making them your focus. Make the gangbangers who use them criminally your focus.
Posted by JimK at 01:06 AM on July 06, 2007
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#2 Posted by Judas 
on 07/08 at 02:36 AM -
Not enough money was spent on the program.
*cough*
Okay, on to reality.
There could be many theoretically valid comments made about such a program taking many, many years before the effects are shown...in fact, there definitely are, since one can only assume the entire purpose of the registry is not to prevent immediate gun crime, but to trace the source of gun dispersal and eliminate it. And given how aggressively gun owners have opposed this legislation, one might theoretically assume the effects would not be seen for at least 10+ years (given the numerous amnesty’s and such).
That being said, screw it, this program is a clusterf*ck. It was (like so many gun laws are up here) a piece of election-bolstering garbage, catering to the “think of the children” hysterics--and such programs have been initiated by both conservatives and liberals to prop up their polls, this is simply the most absurd instance. To note, while initiated by the liberal party, it has yet to be discontinued by the conservatives, who have decided to “pick their fights”.
And despite *that* being said, quoting the Fraser Institute is seldom indicative of an “independent”, non-partisan viewpoint. They occasionally make good points, but they do so in such a blatantly biased, hackneyed, poorly-argued manner that you want to disagree with them anyway. Just mentioning.
#3 Posted by Sean Galbraith 
on 07/09 at 05:38 PM -
What Judas said. :-)
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