PUBLICATION:
Windsor Star
DATE:
2001.12.29
EDITION:
Final
SECTION:
EDITORIAL
PAGE:
A8
SOURCE:
Windsor Star
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Federal
Firearms Registry: The Liberal government's firearms registry continues to be an
expensive waste of taxpayers' money. After three years of operation and a cost
of at least half a billion dollars, only 300,000 of about two million gun owners
have been processed -- despite the fact the government is now waiving the $18
registration fee. As well, only 1.4 million rifles and shotguns have been
registered and, according to Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz, there could be as
many as 15 million more to go. It's now certain the government won't register
every firearm in the country a year from now as it had planned. The bottom line
remains that the cost of this program is beyond anything imagined and it is a
waste of time and energy. There's no evidence the gun registry has accomplished
anything as far as public safety goes. It only targets law-abiding citizens.
Better that government should spend its time and taxpayers' money tracking down
real criminals and terrorists.