New Efforts to Eliminate Long-Gun Registry in Canada
Canada’s much-criticized long-gun Registry is under attack. Media editorials have called the registry a “$2 Billion Waste” (Calgary Sun) and “an insult to law-abiding citizens” (Kelowna Capital News). It looks like there is a very good chance that Canada’s Parliament will dismantle the costly and unpopular Registry this year.
Members of the majority Conservative party, lead by Primer Minister Stephen Harper, are moving forward with efforts to repeal the Registry. When Harper’s party came into power in 2006, its leaders pledged to get rid of the controversial registry. Legislation was introduced last year to eliminate the Registry, but that effort wasn’t successful. However, according to the BBC News website, “While a repeal failed last year, the Conservative’s new majority has a much greater chance of success.”
If the Conservatives succeed in dismantling the registry, the tens of thousands of Registry records would be deep-sixed. That idea is popular with critics of the Registry: “the Harper government’s further directive to destroy all the data is a mammoth victory of the people over Big Brother” (Calgary Sun).
A recent editorial in the Kewlona Capital News website, states: “The looming end of the federal long gun registry is a good omen for taxpayers. It shows that the [Canadian] federal government is actually willing to get rid of programs that serve no purpose, and waste tax dollars unnecessarily.”
With Canada Poised to Eliminate Registry, California Mandates Long-Gun Registration
It’s ironic that while Canadians move to dismantle their costly and ineffective Registry, California’s Governor Jerry Brown recently signed AB 809, a bill requiring registration of rifles and shotguns, starting in 2014. Apparently California has not learned from Canada’s “$2 Billion Mistake”.
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Unfortunately, Jerry Browns ego will never allow him to admit he was wrong and the wishy washy Republicans that get elected here wont touch it either.
it’s not a matter of ego, it is a matter of idiot legislators from LA, and SF, and a state where the majority is effectively unrepresented.
If the Canadians rid themselves of such ridiculous legislation, they are showing that there actually is some common sense in their government and representation of the people’s wishes. I doubt that anyone will ever say that about the California state government.
These sorts of boondoggles have never lived up to their intuitive expectations in terms of mitigating crime. It is indeed ironic that in a culture and a society in which evidence based decisions have become the paradigm of decisions involving health and safety, that such a witch-burning approach is even ponderable.
The Canadian gun registry has been used as NOTHING more than a politcal lever. In Canada with its parliamentary system, the ruling party may not comprise a majority of members. Whenever the minority Conservatives have tried to implement innovative change, the majority of non conservative parties have ganged up to defeat such initiatives. Now that they are no longer a minority, we can finally move forward against parties that have achieved nothing more than obstruction on principle.
It was never about safety, it was always about creating a confiscation list the antis could use when they decided to take away people’s property without giving them one red cent in return.