Columnist Lorne Gunter’s name hits my blog for the second time in as many days. This phenomenon occurs when people say the right things.
This is an interesting column about the stupid (suspicious?) gun registry that the liberals said would cost $2 million and ended up costing in excess of $1 BILLION dollars. Note that Canada already had a gun registry for handguns—this one if just for “long guns”—and it didn’t cost $1 BILLION dollars. Also note that I could have set up the gun registry on my computer with the help of a couple people for approximately $384.
But no, it cost (suspiciously?) in excess of $1 BILLION dollars. This would be owing to the financial brilliance of Chretien/Martin Liberals (and suspicious perfidy?).
I love guns and I love being able to own them for security and for fun. But the Liberals’ gun registry has absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to do with our safety or security (or fun)—and that’s a provable fact. And that in itself is a scary thought.
I have never owned a firearm. Heck, I’ve never even held a real gun, much less fired one. Still, there are few federal programs that irk me more than Ottawa’s gun registry.
It’s not just the waste, although that’s atrocious—nearly $2-billion for a dysfunctional pile of uselessness.
And it’s not just the uselessness. The registry is also one of those truisms for liberals, one of their articles of blind faith. To a liberal, universal registration of guns is something all intelligent people must support or, well, they’re not intelligent. They use gun control as a litmus test for who is and isn’t sophisticated and subtle of mind. So that even if you can prove the registry will have no practical effect—it won’t prevent armed robberies or murders, or keep enraged spouses from killing one another—a liberal still has to cling to it for fear of being seen as NOKD (not our kind, dear).
But what troubles me most is what it says about its supporters’ attitude toward the people and government. Backing most gun laws amounts to proclaiming trust in government over trust in one’s fellow citizens.
This is especially true of Canada’s gun registry. You really, really have to have faith in government, and be really, really suspicious of the gun owner down the block to continue to think our national registry will ever do any good.
Frankly, I’ll take my law-abiding neighbours over politicians, bureaucrats, experts and advocates any day.
If you have time, also read a column I wrote about the gun registry (and such) almost exactly a year ago called “Liberals: Shooting For The Stars”.
Here’s s anippet from that:
Reg Alcock, the Liberal’s Treasury Board whiz, acknowledged the concerns about this cost overrun using positive political spin to express what would obviously be a very contrite and embarrassed and apologetic Liberal government:
“This thing got away from us,” he said. “We tried to rein it in and we were not successful.”
By saying things like that, Liberals always remind me of Bill Clinton’s penis.
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