Our own hoplophobes and anti-rights advocates must be getting a case of the vapors over this news from our neighbors from the frozen north:
Gun-control advocates say they are horrified and fearful that Canada’s long-gun firearms registry is on the verge this week of being scrapped because the Conservatives may have enough support from the opposition to kill it.
About gorramed time. The long-gun registry in Canada has cost somewhere over one billion Canadian dollars, and the program has been rife with claims of “creative” book-keeping.
So what have the Canadian people received for this expenditure? Well, the current count is that somewhere been “zero” and “one” crimes have been solved using the long-gun registry, though specific numbers are very difficul to nail down online – the Canadians trumpet the number of times the firearm registry in general is queried, but they cannot even provide solid numbers for the system as a whole.
And people are upset that an ineffective, over-budget, highly defective system is (hopefully – the vote is tomorrow) going away?
Well, of course they are – they are facing the prospects of losing some small degree of control over their populace, and Lord knows that politicians and would-be-totalitarians alike would never abide such a thing. Is it any small wonder, then, that American hoplophobes are pushing for our own registration system at every available opportunity, despite the fact that the Canadians are facing the undeniable failure of their own?
As always, firearm registrations were never about the firearms.
(Courtesy of Snowflakes in Hell.)
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