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Originally Posted by darkfroggy
Why are you assuming that I'm holding onto political propaganda?
I think the entire gun registry is a waste of money, which could be better spent elsewhere. Where has it been proven that the gun registry has significantly reduced rates of crime, or made it easier to investigate such instances?
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As I said, that statement is directed towards everyone of every political affiliation. Conservatives cling to the idea that the long gun registry costs $60 million+ a year and site it as their reason for wanting to scrap it. If you want to scrap the entire registry you can understand my confusing you as a member of the stream of conservatives who preach scrapping just the long gun registry and leaving the hand gun registry in tact, that's an entirely different debate that hasn't been actively pursued.
I haven't seen the hard figures that show the gun registry has reduced crime rates and I agree with your point that it's not the most effective system possible, and I would agree with scrapping it if there was a better system planned to replace it. Although no one has hard numbers on the effectiveness of the gun registry and the only measure we have is opinions of the officers who use it, gun control of any sort is proven to reduce crime.