I have already said why I think gun laws are useless. but once again, only honest people register their guns. Criminals will use illegal guns which obviously won't be in the gun regristry and therefore the registry will be of no use.
The registry does an important job. When a gun is made, it's sold and is registered into the gun registry. There are checks and balances to indicate where and when the firearm is transfered into criminal hands. At some point, a so called law abiding gun owner, either doesn't follow the rules or out right breaks the law when a gun is transfered without following the rules. There are many ways the guns make their way into the hands of criminals, accepting that criminals are going to have guns and doing nothing about it until a crime is committed is just plain stupid.
Yes it costs money for society, but that's no reason to waste money on idiotic programs like a gun registry.
The gun registry helps to identify where and when a gun was transfered into criminal hands. That isn't an idiotic idea unless you happen to be the one selling violent criminal guns.
The police do a good job catching criminals. The problem is with the law and the courts that let them go free again. It's a revolving door. There have been shooters simply placed under house arrest and forbidden to own a firearm. Does the court really think a person who shoots another person is going to do what he is told? I don't think so!
No they don't. Most of the criminals who get off on charges do so because of a mistake made in their arrest or the investigation afterward. Courts hear evidence and there are strict rules to evidence. The police are supposed to know these rules and often don't, or can't be bothered to follow them.
Then there are those who get out of jail because the jails are too crowded, or because they have served one third of their sentence.
One good way to free up jail space is to make non violent offenders serve their sentence under house arrest. Another is to change the laws regarding Cannabis and other drugs.
I think if a person shoots another person deliberately he should be put in jail for a good long time and kept there until his full sentence is served.
That is why there are judges who use discretion to tell who just happened into an accident and someone trying to murder another person. One size doesn't fit all. Further, when you hold someone until their full sentence is up, they have no reason to participate in any form of rehabilitation. If punishment was a deterrent, there would be no murders. When you punish someone severely then simply turn them loose, you end up unleashing a monster on society without any control over them. They don't have to report in, abide any regulations stipulated by the court or Corrections Canada, or the Parole system. They have served their sentence and paid their debt in full. That leads to recidivism.
Not back on the street getting another illegal gun.
What we really need is to go back to mothers raising kids right and teaching them to be honest and law abiding and to stop being soft on criminals. But that's a subject for another whole thread.
You're the one who doesn't want to waste money. Youth have been disengaged for generations now, parked in front of the tv until they get kicked out of the house by a mom who has to work all day and half the night just to keep food and shelter covered. While society doesn't want to help raise these young men, there are plenty of gangsters who know that a little money, some respect and a job will make these guys into great foot soldiers to support their organized crime operation.
You can't really wash your hands of someone then complain that no one is taking care of raising them. It takes a village not half a village.
