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Who cares about the long gun registry?

Do you think the long gun registry is an important national political issue?

  • Yes, this is an important issue.

    Votes: 63 51.2%

  • No, this is not an important issue.

    Votes: 60 48.8%
  • Total voters
    123
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Duster929

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This is a simple poll, as I'm trying to get a sense for how big a deal this issue actually is. I'm asking this of a bunch of people I know, so I figure I'd ask here as well. GTAM is a cross-section of people from varying walks of life, in any case.

This thread is NOT to debate if you're for or against the registry. Personally, I can see reasons for being on either side of the debate.

All I want to know is - do you care about this issue? Is this issue actually so important that it should be front and centre in the House of Parliament? We are recovering from a recession, there is continued joblessness. We have transportation problems throughout the country. Environmental issues. Our manufacturing base is eroding. Our productivity is declining. Our base for innovation is getting smaller. We are in combat in one country. There are immigration issues. I could go on. So - does the long gun registry belong in this list of IMPORTANT issues? Yes or no please, and if you care to give an explanation, go ahead.
 
I voted yes.
Not because I really care whether or not guns get registered (not being a gun owner, it doesn't affect me).
But I think it is important because it explifies and brings to light many issues in our society; one being general freedoms and rights to personal property, another being the level of government intrusion into the lives of private citizens, and most important to me, is that it highlights the excessive wastefulness of government function and makes one of the strongest possible arguments for small government.
 
I care and I hope it gets scrapped, as its a waste of money and I don't think I should have to go through bureaucratic BS to register a stupid hunting rifle just to shoot some ducks. Its unnecessary.

But really, in the grand scheme of the government and all the things they should be worrying about, the gun registry shouldn't be the divisive issue. And MPs should certainly be voting in line with their constituents and not just doing what their leaders tell them to do. Its not important enough to be front-center, and the reasons for that are: it's not horribly expensive, compared to other spending; and it doesn't actually do anything. So really, if it stays, it remains an inconvenience for gun owners and a slight burden for taxpayers. If it gets cut, gun owners catch some slack and bleeding-hearts lose a talking point. Big deal. This bill should've never had this amount of attention.
 
it's a multi-billion dollar boondoggle which has criminalized otherwise law-abiding citizens purely for political purposes.
the tories made it an election promise, and so need to uphold their promise
it's not just a dusty piece of useless legislation.

it needs to be scrapped.
 
Waste of time and resources IMO. Plus the if you have your PAL you should know enough about handling weapons. Its the people that dont know about guns and wish to obtain them illegally is what worries me. My resources should be spent on that then the people who are doing things legally.
 
JamieVk said:
Waste of time and resources IMO. Plus the if you have your PAL you should know enough about handling weapons. Its the people that dont know about guns and wish to obtain them illegally is what worries me. My resources should be spent on that then the people who are doing things legally.
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mat2312 said:
It is an important issue because it costs taxpayers millions of dollars for NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING.
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This is exactly why it is an important issue.

People who commit crimes with guns, did not come to posess those guns via legal means in the first place. The gun registry does nothing to curtail the sale/trade of illegal arms.

I don't know ANYONE that supports the gun registry, let alone a majority. How it has lasted this long without being scrapped is a testament to the uselessness of Canadian politics.
 
caboose483 said:
This is exactly why it is an important issue.

People who commit crimes with guns, did not come to posess those guns via legal means in the first place. The gun registry does nothing to curtail the sale/trade of illegal arms.

I don't know ANYONE that supports the gun registry, let alone a majority. How it has lasted this long without being scrapped is a testament to the uselessness of Canadian politics.
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^^ This. Couldn't have said it better. Criminals don't register their long weapons.
 
Total waste of time and resources.
Nothing but a money grab and an effort to make the sheeple vote.
 
I haven't yet seen a good argument for why this is more important than the millions we're spending in afghanistan, or the millions we're losing in manufacturing productivity, or potential earnings by retaining ownership of our resources. Or the millions we spend in health care for preventable, obesity-related diseases. Or the millions we spend remedying environmental damage that shouldn't have occurred in the first place. Or the millions we could earn by improving our education system.

I guess I can't figure out why the House of Commons is so focussed on the gun registry. The argument that it is a violation of our rights is a fair one, and that it might be a slippery slope. Other than that, the fact that the gun registry is good or bad is a separate issue from whether or not it's of national significance, or should be an election issue....
 
The current poll results only confirm my beliefs that the average person in the GTA is a mouth breathing idiot.
 
A report on the news claimed that Canadian law enforcement agencies use the registry 14,000 times a day on average.
 
Scudzo_2 said:
A report on the news claimed that Canadian law enforcement agencies use the registry 14,000 times a day on average.
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I can see it now.....

Cop: Can you do a search on a Winchester Shotgun used in a bank robbery. Serial number 9238913489172342
Registry Lady: I have no records of that weapon

14,000 times a day!
 
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caboose483 said:
I can see it now.....

Cop: Can you do a search on a Glock 9mm used in a bank robbery. Serial number 9238913489172342
Registry Lady: I have no records of that weapon

14,000 times a day!
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I'm not defending the registry. As I said, I can see reasons for both sides of this debate.

I think the way the cops use it is like this:

"We've got a call for a domestic disturbance at 123 Anywhere St."
"Can you run that address and see if there's a firearm in the house?"

I could see this kind of interaction happening thousands of times per day.
 
caboose483 said:
The current poll results only confirm my beliefs that the average person in the GTA is a mouth breathing idiot.
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The average person in the GTA is a mouth breathing idiot because the poll is about evenly split between those that thing the gun registry is an extremely important national issue, and those that don't think it's such an important issue?
 
Duster929 said:
I'm not defending the registry. As I said, I can see reasons for both sides of this debate.

I think the way the cops use it is like this:

"We've got a call for a domestic disturbance at 123 Anywhere St."
"Can you run that address and see if there's a firearm in the house?"

I could see this kind of interaction happening thousands of times per day.
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Well for starters cops usually approach any domestic disturbance as if there is a gun or weapon. They should approach any situation that way for their safety and to reduce costs.
 
Duster929 said:
The average person in the GTA is a mouth breathing idiot because the poll is about evenly split between those that thing the gun registry is an extremely important national issue, and those that don't think it's such an important issue?
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Haha..errr... good point. Half of them are?
 
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