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Originally Posted by darkfroggy
How does the gun registry help when criminals almost never register their handguns? The money could be better spent somewhere else. Has the gun registry been proven to drastically lower rates of crime with handguns?
Of course the police would want it. Even if it made their job 1-2% easier, they would take it. But at what cost to the public?
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Of course criminals don't register their hand guns, the only practical thing that will make a significant reduction in hand gun related crimes in Canada is simply banning their sale to private individuals. If hand gun sales to private individuals were banned and only gun clubs and law enforcement agencies were allowed to own them that would make progress in decreasing hand gun crime, even then, the progress would be limited considering what country we border.
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Originally Posted by sky52
2 billion dollars so far.
Plus PAL gets renew every 5 years not every year.
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2 billion dollars so far, correct, there was a significant initial investment in establishing the long gun registry. The registry costs only a few million dollars a year to maintain, eliminating it effectively throws away that investment.
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Originally Posted by Manic!
So how much does the gun registry cost the public per year?
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It's less than 10 million a year IIRC.
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Originally Posted by taylor192
Even if they merge, they only represent < 50% of Canadians, while the Conservatives were polling as high as 41% recently.
So lets not pretend like a vote for the Libs or NDP is "democratic" as they don't represent most Canadians either.
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The key word is as high as 41%, let's keep in mind that they generally sit around 35% support and that is a pretty small fraction of the population. If we wanted to make our system more democratic then it would need to be changed to proportional representation.