Comments on: Historic vote to scrap the long gun registry

By: Chuck C

Chuck C — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:12:32 +0000

The guns used in crime are largely stolen in the United States and smuggled over the border to be sold on the black market. Not to mention, the guns targeted in the Long-Gun Registry are completely useless when used in the consideration of the majority of gun crimes. Gang members want something that's small and easy to carry, not a hunting rifle.

By: michelt

michelt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:04:34 +0000

As most Canadians, I am glad the Long Gun Registry is going the way of the Dodo…

But what I find most interesting, is that the death of the white elephant shows that IT IS possible to kill a useless government program!!!

I wonder which other pointless bureaucracy we should set our sights on?

By: wilson

wilson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:45:40 +0000

So Ms Wendy and Wayne Easter did not like the CPC ads....they would rather Canadians be lulled into thinking 'oh well'.

If the Libs hang it up in committee, fire up that advertising team,
and go back to those same ridings to inform constituants what's happening!

IMO, that is my donation dollars to the CPC well spent.

Now how about the CWB,
farmers thrown in jail for selling their own grain,
but only Western Canadian farmers.....Eastern farmers are free to sell to whom ever they want, without penalty.

Surely people in downtown Toronto, and PEI have no skin in that game,
yet see the unfairness in it.

By: Nicola Timmerman

Nicola Timmerman — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:44:34 +0000

After the vote there was nothing about it on CBC until a while later when their analyst in Quebec City, not Ottawa, mentioned that a majority had voted for the bill (no numbers or footage of the historic vote) and proceeded to give a report on possible reaction to the bill in Quebec. Later in the evening on Mark Kelly's show the report on the bill began with footage of the Polytechnique massacre.

By the way we could as easily say we should ban all Algerian immigrants to Canada as a solution to gun massacres since Marc Lepine had a wife and child beating father from Algeria who had no respect for women (Lepine original name was Gamil Gharbi but this is rarely mentioned in stories about him).

By: batb

batb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:56:45 +0000

Well, hip, hip, hooray -- and pass the ammunition. (I've never owned a gun in my life and probably never will.)

The hysteria of the pro-gun registry fanatics is pathetically laughable. I'll bet not one death-by-gun in Toronto, or Montreal, or Vancouver, or Halifax was caused by a registered firearm. What don't these idiots understand about gangs and gangsters? Do they genuinely believe that these guys register their guns????

The gun registry, at $2-billion and counting, hasn't put a halt to shooting deaths in Canada by criminals, but has harrassed honest gun-owning farmers and hunters. I'd be delighted to see it shot out of the water, so to speak.

The spin I heard on the news this morning? Getting rid of the gun registry is the scrapping of a Canadian taxpayer "investment." Yeah, an investment we never wanted, didn't ask for, and for which we've been overtaxed by the government for years -- and all for nothing. Again, follow the money ... who's making it off this bogus solution to gun crime in Canada?

By: ripples

ripples — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:39:27 +0000

If the tories don't play politics with this it could get a thorough hearing in a way that all canadians can judge whether this law is god or not. To address as an urban/rural split is nonsense.