After 20 years of argument and $2 BILLION (an amount which seemed large before the mad Mombassan Marxist appeared on Earth) Canada's Conservative government, with the help of 20 members of the opposition, has decided to dismantle the National Gun Registry.
The vote was 167-134. Frankly, the margin of victory surprised everyone, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The NGR was a Liberal government reaction to a shooting at a Montreal university in 1989; 14 women were shot dead by a Muslim. It was supposed to cost about $2 MILLION to create. To create panic the RCMP (the Mounties!) released doctored figures for gun crimes. They merely jacked the numbers 1000%.
Those foolish enough to register found themselves in paperwork for a 12 to 18 months.
A friend was denied a permit to own a gun. He lost his gun. The NGR snoopers called his ex-wife, a woman who had been shown to be a liar in court, and she claimed he had threatened her with a gun once, sometime, not sure when, but ... They had no particulars and they didn't have to give my pal an explanation. No permit. Turn in your gun tomorrow.
You could be denied a permit if you just lost your job or had been ill. The government claimed you'd be mentally unstable. There was no provision to challenge a ruling.
The Liberals claimed most guns were registered but any gun owner I ever knew either did not register or registered only one shotgun or rifle so they would have a license to buy ammo. Friends would agree to buy shells for each other.
The law made criminals out of law abiding citizens who simply didn't trust government.
Not a single crime was deterred. The ganstas of Little Jamaica, Toronto's inner-city, continue to kill each other with unregistered handguns. Handguns have been very restricted in Canada since 1935!
No word yet if the NGR is merely discontinued or if the old files will be destroyed. My guess is that the files will continue to float in the ether.
Stand up. Obama has a similar scheme for gun owners in the USA. It won't work and will be expensive. I didn't have to tell you that, did I?
