Newsflash: Canadian Criminals Use Unregistered Guns...

That's right. Despite a mandated gun registry, a massive bureaucracy to maintain it and more regulations than you can shake a stick at, gun-toting criminals are still going on a rampage in Toronto.

So the Canadian taxpayer is footing the bill for the government to make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to own firearms and to gather tons of information about them so they can be "tracked" and "monitored", and it turns out that the criminals aren't cooperating by registering their guns. Who'd have thunk it?

Hello?!? This is the same predicament the U.S. would find itself in if it had a national handgun registry (which is a major goal of the anti-gun lobby). As an editorial in the Edmonton Sun explains:

Back in late 1994, when then-justice minister Allan Rock first unveiled the gun-control program, he declared, "This tough new gun-control program will improve public safety and also send a strong message that the criminal misuse of guns will not be tolerated."

Eleven years later, the Liberals are suddenly worried about gun crime because Toronto has been blitzed by gun violence. In a more sane country, Toronto would realize that the gun registry has been exposed as an expensive waste of money and would punish the Liberals for lying to them by voting them out. And the Grits would shut down their useless registry and put the money into actual police officers fighting crime.

I'm not a member of the NRA. I'm not a gun owner. And it's quite conceivable that I will never own a gun in my whole life. By if ever do, I'm guaranteed that right by the second amendment (for now). This isn't an especially big issue for me, but even people who don't think they have a personal stake in these kinds of policies need to oppose them - if for no other reason than it's a ridiculous waste of money and resources.

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