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Re: Gun Registry

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From: sillerto Determinator
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 19:34
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"Darin" <nospam@home.com> wrote:

>Someone should release report showing the effects of how all that wasted
>money could have benefited everyone by putting that money into things like:
>reducing tuitions for education and make education more affordable for
>students. Upgrading and buying more health care equipment. Medical research.
>Pay down the national deficit resulting in lower taxes. invest in fighting
>organized crime. Invest in the working poor by means of education grants
>better education = better job = better life. that Billions of dollars could
>go along way in these areas and everyone would be better off. If a report
>like this would be released I think it would be a big eye opening experience
>for all these people who are in favor of the firearms registry and I am sure
>that they would change their stand point. They have wasted a billion dollars
>to date how much more money is going to be wasted on this over the next 5,
>10 and 50 years. The term money pit comes to mind.


sadly, I don't think the present laws could have prevented this
recent tragedy:

Boy, 6, dies after being shot by sister, 7
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/01/04/boy_shot030104
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From: siller$to@calcna.ab..ca. (Determinator)
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Subject: Re: Gun Registry
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