Monday, July 14, 2003

Registered?

I hate to bring up this trivial matter during this time of tragedy, but does the billion dollar registry require registration of pellet guns?

A 5-year-old Toronto boy could suffer brain damage and possible blindness after being struck in the eye by a pellet from an air pistol yesterday.

When is this registry madness going to stop?

Why wasn’t the shooter charged with attempted murder?

Saturday, June 7, 2003

Fire Away

This is what I want to do when I go to Las Vegas someday.

I had never before touched a handgun, let alone fired one.

We can only dream about it in Canada.

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Ontario on side

More good news: Ontario won’t enforce gun registry law.

Ontario is refusing to prosecute anyone who fails to register a rifle or shotgun because it’s a dumb law, Attorney-General Norm Sterling said yesterday.
Ontario joins Nova Scotia and three Western provinces in refusing to have anything to do with the federal gun registration law that so far has cost more than $1 billion.

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Nova Scotia defies Ottawa

Good to see Nova Scotia is defying the Chretienites.

Nova Scotia says Ottawa’s gun registry legislation is a bad law and is refusing to prosecute anyone who doesn’t register their rifles or shotguns.

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Registry Sinkhole gets more

The never ending black hole that is the gun registry gets more money today.

The Liberal government pushed another $59 million for the troubled federal gun registry through the House of Commons on Tuesday, overcoming opposition objections and internal dissent from some of its own backbenchers.

Think of the money we’ve saved by not using our military in Iraq - meanwhile the Americans spend billions on our behalf.  Pitiful.

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

Say nothing report

To no one’s surprise, a report on the gun registry had no information to add on the massive cost overruns.  Reports and studies that say nothing are a Liberal legacy.

Breitkreuz said the KPMG report failed to answer key questions. “It’s obviously a waste of taxpayers’ money because there’s nothing in this report that explains anything.”

Saturday, January 11, 2003

All politics

My new favorite Globe columnist, Maggie W., on the registry.

In other words, I’m a completely typical educated urban female, and the Liberals know that people like me now outnumber people who belong to rod’n’gun clubs.
The only trouble is the evidence.
The evidence is that Canada’s traditional gun culture is among the most benign in the world. It’s Mark Trail, not Rambo. The problem the Liberals’ gun registry was devised to fix does not exist.

Hope all the female liberals who have driven this law are reading.

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

Spending more

When a Canadian government wants to obfuscate, it studies it and the study leads to spending more money on the problem.

The federal government is determined to keep its national firearms registry in place and will spend another $92,000 on an outside consultant to find ways to clean up the troubled system, says Justice Minister Martin Cauchon.
The new spending, announced today, will fund a study aimed at “streamlining” the registration process and improving its efficiency. ...Another $62,000 was previously announced for a separate review by accounting firm KPMG. That study will look at internal financial systems and controls at the registry, which has suffered massive cost overruns since its inception in 1995.

From this same article, Ottawa’s police chief thinks:

But Ottawa police chief Vince Bevan, speaking for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, welcomed Cauchon’s decision to press ahead.

“If this legislation saves even one life it will have proven its worth,” said Bevan.

Is this guy a moron?  Spending a billion dollars that we don’t have to save one life is worth it?  What if we use that billion dollars and save 10,000 lives?  Wouldn’t that make more sense?

The only chief of police making sense on this issue is Toronto’s - the city where the shootings take place daily.

Tuesday, January 7, 2003

8 is enough?

8 provinces are now against the registry and its mega cost.  What will it take for the Feds to give up?

Emboldened by their swelling ranks, justice ministers from all but two provinces were calling on Ottawa yesterday to halt operations at the national gun registry, as the program increasingly becomes an outlet for pent-up provincial exasperation over federal profligacy.

Gun writer

Toronto Sun Letter writers are among the best:

TAKE MURDEROUS gangs, a thriving black market in high-powered weaponry, dull-minded incompetents posing as leaders, a sorely undermanned police force gagged and bound by political correctness, hordes of bleeding-heart excuse-mongers, destabilizing immigration policies, a soft-headed non-deterrent approach to felonies and misdemeanours, and a populace nursed to limp dependency by a nanny state. Mix well in the Toronto area. Voila! A city sans future.

Gene Summers

(Gee, happy new year to you, too, sunshine!)

Monday, January 6, 2003

Gun Bureaucrats

Levant on Ottawa’s new growth industry.

Canada’s billion-dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers.

Native elite

The hypocrisy continues with regard to natives and also the gun registry.

Aboriginals account for just 3% of Canada’s population, yet commit 25% of this country’s murders. It wouldn’t be illogical, then, for any federal gun control effort to focus on this small group of people. Instead, our Liberal government has done all it can to exempt natives from the standard provisions of the Firearms Act.

Can this gun registry fiasco be the achilles heel of this miserable Liberal government?  Something has to give!

Newfies against

CNEWS Canada - Nfld. calls for gun program suspension - yet another province is calling for a suspension, if not end, of the billion dollar boondoggle known as the gun registry.

Newfoundland’s justice minister says the federal gun registration program should be shut down until Ottawa can come to terms with its massive cost overruns.

Kelvin Parsons said Monday that Ottawa shouldn’t “bulldoze ahead” with the registry until it figures out what went wrong.