It appears that Stephen Harper's government is set to introduce legislation to abolish the "long gun registry".
*Rolls Eyes* Yeah - whatever.
Frankly, I don't distinguish between long guns, short guns, wide guns and narrow guns. A gun is a gun is a gun. Period. Given the destructive capability of these things, I see absolutely nothing wrong with insisting that they be registered - regardless of their size/shape or intended usage. The argument that it doesn't stop criminals is bogus in the first place. The whole notion of the gun registry goes back to the incident at Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal in the late 1980s. It has more to do with stemming domestic violence than anything else. Street thugs are street thugs - even if we had perfect gun control that prevented criminals from getting guns at all, we'd simply find that the criminals would take to manufacturing their own. (It's not terribly complicated to do)
However, HarperCrit's playing to his base in Alberta - that's all this is.
BTW - this legislation will likely pass sometime during this parliament - mostly because Harper will start throwing around the "I'll treat it as a confidence matter" card, and neither the Liberals nor the NDP want an election right now.
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