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Originally Posted by directfiesta
I see ....
Seems like Police does supprt the registry .. and that oposing are mainly Hillbillies from Alberta ....
Now I am fine with no registry .. as long as I do not have to register my car ,.. or my boat ... or my house ....  |
The cops can still check the registry for handguns.... It'll still be around, and still be highly regulated.
Long guns are an issue, but a minor one...
Here are a few stats from Canada:
Handguns account for 2/3's of firearm crime (and will still be in the registry)
30% of guns used in homicides were registered (so 70% were illegal and not in the registry anyways)
50% of guns used in suicides were registered (so again, half of them wouldn't even be in the registry).
78% of deaths involving a gun were suicides
Also, it's not just "Alberta Hillbillies" that like guns...
Quebec has 6,595 licenses per !00,000 people. Alberta has 6,949, Ontario has 4,349...
Quebec and Alberta are similar, Ontario has much less....
Additionally, Montreal has similar levels of gun violence to Calgary, and much more than Edmonton. (Per 100,000, Montreal had 34, Calgary had 35, Edmonton had 28).
Since I happen to live in both Montreal and Calgary, I can also say authoritatively - there are more gun ranges in Montreal, and the people that go them seem a lot sketchier. The gun owners in Alberta seem to be a lot more responsible..
Montreal gun owners all seem to be skinheads or bikers
My personal thoughts are that the money has been spent. Why not keep it around now that it's in place... If we were allowed a do-over, they should never have been allowed to spend the $2 billion building it...