TenPenny said:
Extrafire said:
TenPenny said:
The whole point of a gun registry is that, if your guns aren't registered, they can be taken away. If your guns are registered, you therefore have a right to have them.
All of you Harperites keep claiming that all the crimes are committed with UNREGISTERED GUNS. So, the registry provides a simple way for the police to decide which ones can be taken away. Therefore all you Harperites must be in favour of the registry, right?
Why are you people so inconsistent? You're contradicting your own bloody point.
Silly statements.
Registration always preceeds confiscation.
You people persist in this insane delusion that "the government" wants to take your guns. You really really need some therapy. There's no point in debating this any more: there is a large group of people who suffer from some delusion about confiscation. If registration always preceeds confiscation, why aren't you worried about your cars? I use my car a lot more than I use my rifle, and I'm far more worried about "them" confiscating my car.
To use your logic, "they" are obviously planning to seize everyone's car, because, in your own words, registration always preceeds confiscation. And that reminds me, we had to "register" our children....are they going to be confiscated, too? I'd better run out and by an Uzi or an AK47 so that I can defend my family against the evil "they" who are going to take my car and my daughters.
We're talking about guns, remember? Not cars or children. And I'm just referring to the history of gun registration. The first country to have it was Nazi Germany, and they followed it up with confiscation. England also registered some guns including hand guns, and they were confiscated.
Really, why would they want to register guns in the first place? It has no effect on crime or accidents so it serves no useful purpose. The only reason (and this was confirmed by a loose-liped Liberal MP a few years ago) was to win votes from gullible urbanites. If confication follows in the same manner as in England, some horrific crime (the killing of 16 school kids in Scotland) will prompt the government to seize guns. This will also have broad support by (justifiably horrified) urbanites but will serve no purpose, because the only guns seized will be the registered ones from law abiding citizens, and the crooks will still have theirs.
It's a stupid law. And overly expensive.