The (FAKE) liberal party has been doing the exact thing to us and also Mayor Miller of Toronto he has yet to answer the question asked by multiple people as to where he got his statistics !

but i must say your blog is the pot calling the kettle black as you closed your comments

I’m with you and the many other gun control advocates that live and work in Canada. I suggest that your critics read the following article to gain some perspective and statistics that show how useful the registry is:

Nation’s long-gun registry a valuable tool for police
http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/article/498654

“In a 2007 survey by the Canada Firearms Centre of police officers from various agencies, 92 per cent of respondents reported that their agency used the registry, and 74 per cent reported that in their experience the registry had proved beneficial during major operations. Gun lobbyists often say that criminals will not register their guns. If so, the solution seems simple. Responsible gun owners should register. Then, police can simply confiscate any unregistered weapon they come across. Registration allows people to be held accountable for guns they possess. It reduces the chance that careless storage will lead to theft or that guns are sold illegally.”

One last note, don’t let these people distract you and waste your time, keep up the good work!

Homicides 1996-2006 Juristat.85-002-XIE, Vol. 27, no. 8

ten year total homcides 6239
ten year total homicide using firearms 1975
ten year total all other methods 4264

all other methods include; beating, stabbing, strangulation, poisoning, suffocation, and burning.

not even half of all murders are with firearms legally owned or otherwise. To put an issue to rest. the keeping of arms for our defence is a right. Surviving into our law viz s.26 of the Charter. The saving value is that it can be rationally connected to s. 7 of the Charter, and s.1 of the Bill of Rights 1960 which is still in force and applicable to federal legislation.

Not bad for a hillbilly redneck gun nut, I’ll bet you are all surprised that I could even scrape the words together to articulate the argument..cheers

What the registry needs is enforcement. Set a real deadline, and then let police start seizing any unregistered weapon. Using a gun should be like using a car. If you don’t have the proper registration for a car, you can expect to lose your license if stopped for speeding. If you don’t register your gun, you should lose it if you are caught hunting illegally or if the police decide to check it for any reason.

That would be the way to make the registry more accurate and useful. Of course, it can’t be nearly as useful now as it would be if years of pandering to the gun lobby had not rendered it incomplete and out of date.

Figures…