It’s a good time for the federal gun registry to die.
After 11 years of low-calibre crime-fighting — shooting blanks at bad guys, backfiring financially or taking aim at all the wrong targets — the billion-dollar boondoggle uncovered in 2002 by the Auditor General will likely be placed on the de-registration block Wednesday afternoon.
The magic number to send the gun registry kill bill off for committee scrutiny and sober Senate thought is 10 opposition MPs.
Under intense pressure from an attack ad campaign against MPs in ridings the Conservatives don’t hold where local opposition to the registry is strong, at least five Liberals and six New Democrats will likely be spooked enough to vote with the government or abstain on Manitoba MP Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill.
Unless the two opposition party leaders successfully plead for unity at caucus meetings Wednesday morning, that count should stick, lifting the bill over its highest hurdle and putting it on track to unplug the registry and shred its records.
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Tory MP close to having support to kill gun registry
Plan to end gun registry stirs plea from Montreal as tragic anniversary nears
Updates:
2:34 pm EST, November 4th, 2009 — Ignatieff opens door to gun registry changes
“Delorme stressed that the registry was inspired by the Polytechnique massacre”
Yes it was and that is why the registry has been fraudulent from day one and remains a fraud today. Since its conception this registry has not proven to save a single life. To use just one of countless examples we could ask four Mounties in Alberta for their opinion, the only problem is they’re dead and the long gun registry did sweet dick all on their behalf. 14 women tragically lost their lives at Polytechnique at the hands of a mentally ill person who happened to hate women. The long gun registry would not have helped to save them anymore than it did the 4 Mounties. Firearms are more readily available today than they were when Bill C-68 became law. Common sense dictates that had this registry been in existence in 1989 these 14 women would still be dead. Any determined person can get their hands on a firearm quite easily today and the long gun registry presents a zero impediment. There is a clear difference between ignorant people and stupid people. Ignorant people can education themselves and learn. Stupid people can’t.
There is definitely more cost and risk to our freedoms rights and priveleges by keeping the gun registry than eliminating it.
Police could never rely upon it for threat analysis.
Only honest folk use it and pay for it without a single returned benefit.
westerngrit has gone off the deep end, with his rant, telling libs that vote yes should cross the floor. They will be hounded out of the party.
Even Iggy may vote yes, does that mean he will be hounded out of the party and there will be a huge groundswell of e-mails to avoid events he is at, and stop donating.
Things are getting hot, Mary.
You weren’t kidding, MaryT…
http://westerngrit.blogspot.com/2009/11/to-any-liberal-mp-thinking-of-being-fn.html
It will be interesting to see where the bill goes now. If memory serves, the next step is the bill goes to committee to be examined, paragraph by paragraph, to ensure the wording is legal and appropriate. Then off to the Senate for “sober second thought” and finally Royal Assent.
It’s amazing how many folks are desperately trying to link a wasteful and absolutely ineffective long arm registry to “women’s rights” (whatever that means), complete with the standard weeping & wailing about the Montreal Massacre… a horrific incident which the long arm registry would have done NOTHING to prevent…
Without being insensitive here (really, I’ m not) precisely what time of year could they choose to kill the gun registry that wouldn’t coincide with some tragic anniversary in Montreal? Lepine. Gill. The professor with the handgun in the early 90s. The various victims of the biker wars, including the prison guards who were assassinated in cold blood. That calender is booked solid.
RE: #8 Looks like SPAM by a stupid bot that just seized on the word ” registry ” out of context: Zero relevance to the gun registry and just trying to sell some Windows software !
I’m pretty sure Jack will catch and delete this one when he sees it tomorrow.