🚀 go-pugleaf

Garry B. Dormody (gdormody@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca) writes:
>         Are you suggesting that some lunatic is going to sit down and
> say to himself,"Hmmm, I have this rifle and I have this urge to get up
> in the tower and wait for a busload of kids to arrive at school. Jeez,
> I'd better register this so the authorities can stop me before I start
> to act _really_ irresponsibly".

A strawman argument that isn't even worth responding to. It's clearly
ludicrous.
  
>         Like a lot of uninformed people you sound like you have this
> idea that registration will basically clean up the criminlnal element
> and force them to inform the police that they have guns and might use
> them in a _really_ irresponsible manner. Not this year!

The more important part of this is the registration of *new* guns, since
it is unrealistic to expect that every gun stored in some closet or dusty
attic will be registered. The authorities obviously have no way of even
knowing of the existance of these guns. But it is a lot easier to monitor
the movements of new weapons from their point of manufacture onwards.

If everybody had to show a licence for the proper size of gun in order to
buy ammunition for it, even the illegal guns would be much harder to use.
In this respect, C-68 doesn't go far enough.
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