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The picture accompanying a feature story in this week’s Maclean’s magazine is premised on a lie. It shows a bunch of banned and fully restricted hand guns and automatic weapons which have utterly nothing to do with the Conservatives’ half-hearted effort to eliminate the Liberals’ stupid long-gun registry. They are purposely misleading you. It’s a bit of a media lie, as I see it.Not only is the photo a lie, the very opening lines by this week’s Maclean’s magazine in their 856th anti-gun article starts with a lie:
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to try for a third time to scrap the gun registry has been cast by Conservatives as a cultural question….”
Prime Minister Harper and the Conservatives have NOT tried ANY number of times “to scrap the gun registry”. Only the long-gun registry recently created at huge, wasted expense by liberals and Liberals. Not the hand gun registry, just the long gun registry. Hand guns always have, and under Conservative Party ideals (not mine), always will be required to be registered.
This reminds me of liberals and their efforts at intellectually dishonest debate concerning our socialist “health care”, um, “system”, in which they insist that unless we keep it as is and add even more taxpayer cash to it, we will all (but mostly “the kids” will —wink!) suffer and die in the street like “43 million” Americans, who “have to use their American Express Cards to pay for health care”. Or their debate about embryonic stem cell research, in which they blithely and tendentiously call it “stem cell research”, purposely failing to make the intellectually and scientifically vital distinction between adult and embryonic stem cell research, which of course makes ALL the difference to those of us in the sensible set.
The Maclean’s article further “informs” us:
“…In 2008, police across Canada used their computer systems, often terminals right in their patrol cars, to pull information from the Canadian Firearms Registry On-line over 9,400 times a day.
“That adds up to a staggering 3,438,729 queries from police officers last year. It’s hard to imagine a federal database more intensively mined.”
My “mining” knowledge is quite different: Whenever police call-up a computer reference on anybody or anything at any police incident, that gun registry is called up automatically by the computer. It’s not like they purposely call up just the gun registry on their computers—and certainly not the long gun registry alone. So I think this is a purposeful lie by Maclean’s —and one which is commonly used by all gun-banning advocates who seek to obfuscate rather than carry on an intellectually honest debate.
“Police also use the registry to conduct so-called reverse checks; in cases where they recover a gun, perhaps from a crime scene, they check on who is the registered owner. Those in favour of scrapping the so-called long gun registry make a point of stressing that, even without it, police would still be able to check out who has a licence to own guns. But that wouldn’t be any help when the cops are working to trace the ownership of a specific firearm that turns up in an investigation.”
Well yes it would, because hand guns have always had to be and under the Conservatives’ plans, would still be required to be registered. So this is another bit of a lie by Maclean’s.
It’s unfortunate that Canada’s leftist media like Maclean’s incessantly foment this kind of intellectually dishonest debate. It’s cowardly, and proves they know they’re wrong on the issues.
(And “so-called”? Why is it “so-called”? Is that what we get for TWO BILLION taxpayer dollars? A “so-called” long gun registry?)
More intellectually honest information can be gleaned by reading the comments posted at the online article by a man named Jim Pook, who apparently operates a fishing company in BC, than at the Maclean’s article itself. Here is a couple of sample entries by Jim Pook:
Yes, I’m sure that the police chiefs would like to keep the long-gun registry.
They would also like to be able to wiretap your phone, your cell phone, and your email accounts. They would also like to be able to search your home, your place of work, your business, and your person without needing a search warrant. They would also like to be able to arrest you for any whim that comes to them without need of an arrest warrant.
Would all those people here who are advocating for the registry also advocate for all these other tools that the police could use to make their jobs easier?
As far as confiscation is concerned. It is already happening. Shortly after registration started, some guns were reclassifed and banned. Now they had lists of every owner and began confiscating them.
Everything they have told you inorder to sell the long-gun registry to the public has been a lie.
Time to end this lie, and support Senate Bill S-5 to get rid of the registry, once and for all.
…and, in response to his first pedantic detractor, who as usual questions why it should be so awful to register guns when we have to register cars…
Well, for one thing, most people do not have an uninformed, illogical fear of automobiles. No one, (with the possible exception of a few enviro-loonies) want to ban the private ownership of cars.
Myth: Guns should be registered and licensed like cars
Fact: You do not need a license to buy a car. You can buy as many as you want and drive them all you like on your own property without a license.
Fact: Cars are registered because they are (a) sources of tax revenue, (b) objects of fraud in some transactions, and (c) significant theft targets. Thus we ask the government to track them.
Fact: There is no constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear automobiles, and thus they are subject to greater regulation than guns.
Myth: Registration does not lead to confiscation
Fact: It did in Canada. The handgun registration law of 1934 was the source used to identify and confiscate (without compensation) over half of the registered handguns in 2001.
Fact: It did in Germany. The 1928 Law on Firearms and Ammunition (before the Nazis came to power) required all firearms to be registered. When Hitler came to power, the existing lists were used for confiscating weapons.
Fact: It did in Australia. In 1996, the Australian government confiscated over 660,000 previously legal weapons from their citizens.
Fact: It did in California. The 1989 Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act required registration. Due to shifting definitions of “assault weapons,” many legal firearms are now being confiscated by the California government.
Fact: It did in New York City. In 1967, New York City passed an ordinance requiring a citizen to obtain a permit to own a rifle or shotgun, which would then be registered. In 1991, the city passed a ban on the private possession of some semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, and “registered” owners were told that those firearms had to be surrendered, rendered inoperable, or taken out of the city.
Fact: It did in Bermuda, Cuba, Greece, Ireland, Jamaica, and Soviet Georgia as well.
I hope this helps to explain our opposition to firearms registration.
…and many more. Jim swats off debaters like flies, too. Good reading.
Jim Pook is a patriot. My favorite good Canadian of the day.
UPDATE:
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:22:57 -0700
From: “Jim Pook”
To: ProudToBeCanadian
Subject: Jim’s Fishing ChartersJoel:
Thank you for your kind comments, and for taking time to highlight them on your blog.
[…snip… includes great photo of himself with Prime Minister Harper…]
Thanks again!
Jim Pook
Jim’s Fishing Charters
Box 326, Tahsis, BC V0P 1X0
1-888-617-3474 – Toll Free
250-934-7675 – Local
250-934-6222 – Fax
http://www.JimsFishing.com
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