How to achieve the objectives of the gun control laws?
- Thread starter Machjo
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Wow, do you ever use screwed-up math! First off, you can eliminate doctor from the equation. How many dope dealers care if you have script - unless they can photocopy the pad to scam the drug store?
If the problem can't be understood, it can't be fixed. A long gun registry isn't it and creating criminals isn't it.
Unfortunately, what we have done in Canada is make it difficult, frustrating, and legally risky for an honest man to buy a gun.
Criminals get them easily.
Isn't that due to an absolute denial of reality by the firearms community who refuse to accept the gun problem as their own and step up to regulate sensibly rather than leave it to knee jerk reactionism by those who just don't know or understand the issues?
Yes. But, I think Ron's wrong. It's only a possibility. But tyannising the public after getting rid of their firearms has been done before.
I agree.
Not necessarily. There are firearms built specifically for target shooting and they would be pretty useless for killing (silhouette guns, for instance). Have you ever heard of "starter pistols"? Firearms are only tools. It is the intent in using them that is dangerous. They don't have any intent by themselves.
That's pretty much the problem. The Glibs introduced the elephant into the room seemingly without any sensible input. They created the registry which doesn't do the job they idiotically thought it would. And they were told well beforehand it wouldn't work. But they listened to a few hysterical people and reacted badly.
Well, not really difficult, as its only a pile of paperwork. Some people had a good answer to that and registered squirt guns, pneumatic nailers, hair dryers, etc.
It'd be hilarious what a joke the registry really is if it didn't suck so much money.Glibs didn't think of that. "Duh, yeah, criminals want to register their guns. Why wouldn't they?"
As has been said before, our regs were quite adequate without the registry. They just needed to be enforced. And THAT is a problem for the law, not Harry Hunter, Tom Targetshooter, etc.
Our regs do absolutely nothing to prevent guns bought at gun shows where you don't need to show any ID or file any paper work at all, being sold to gun traffickers to end up on the streets of major cities in Canada.
If the regulation was adequate then there would be no need for a gun registry.
There is no problem getting an illegal gun in Canada. Not because of a lack of enforcement, but because the fact is that some handguns are sold in the US to anyone with the money to pay for them without questions.
This combined with a porous border, on the Canadian side anyway, allows for a market to exist. This isn't responsible gun ownership at all. The question is that as gun owners are well aware that this situation exists, there is no call what so ever to resolve this by either tighter border control or closing the loophole that is in effect at gun shows and private sales of firearms in the US. Worse gun owners fight against efforts to address this problem vigorously.
