Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]frank theriault wrote in part: >I'm not sure what the point of your article is. If it's that gun controls actually >increase murder rates, property crimes, and the crime rate in general, then you're >wrong. > > Well Frank, I don't know about elsewhere, but the asinine one billion dollar Gun Registry (i.e. Gun Control) boondoggle that was recently imposed upon the 99% law abiding gun owners in Canada by the most recent estimate has created over one half million new criminals west of the Ontario border alone. People in rural areas and smaller centres in Western Canada use guns to legally hunt, for varmint control on their farms and ranches or simply for target practice or to shoot skeet. Many native Canadians, Metis and some rural peoples' use firearms in this country to put food on their table. This new Gun Registry has not proven to save a single life, reduce crime in any measurable way and it certainly has not keep illegal guns out of the hands of violent criminals who aren't going to register their guns and would never have legally obtained a gun permit under the previously stringent laws on hand guns and other conceal able firearms. It is considered by most Canadians, gun owners or not, as the single largest waste of one billion dollars ever made in Canada and that is saying something in a country which has been run since the days of Lester Pearson by a revolving cast of clowns. Same damn circus, different clowns! There is no question that access to hand guns and certain other firearms needs to be regulated and restricted. Firearms within someone's home need to be properly stored and locked away with ammunition locked away in a separate location, but we had all of that long in place in Canada and it is and was working as intended. Large cities would be wise to seriously restrict or ban outright the ownership and storage of certain firearms within their city limits and I believe most people would support these type of measures but the Canadian Gun Registry is nothing but an incredibly expensive joke being paid for by the very people who don't want it! BTW, here in Alberta far and away knives and not guns are the weapon of choice in bar fights, streetlights and domestic violence. If every gun and knife in the country was to disappear in an instant people would use clubs, rocks and hockey sticks when they intended to harm someone. Regards, Greg > > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html