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Originally Posted by CanadaGoose
It is not propaganda: it cost approx. $60 million PER YEAR to operate ($66.4 million for the 2010-2011 fiscal year)
Total cost to date is nearly fifty times the amount you posted, it is in the billions.
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The entire gun registry costs $66.4 million dollars for the 2010-2011 fiscal year; the conservative government claims the long gun registry costs $65 million per year and thus should be scraped. A huge component of the argument for scrapping it is the cost, but claiming that long guns make up 97.8% of the gun registries total cost is ridiculous. What's wrong with this statement?
The total cost to date is irrelevant, scrapping it now won't make the money come back, it's not like we can sell it to someone.
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Originally Posted by CanadaGoose
It's because no one uses a firearm registered in their name to commit a crime.
So the registry is effectively targeting the wrong people; the law abiding citizen.
It's no suprise gun laws in Canada will have no effect on crime whatsoever, because outlaws do not care about the law, and no matter what system the government implements, as long as their is BC Bud going south to our American neighbors, coke and a shitload of guns will be coming north regardless of what the registry is in place. So like I said, the firearms registry is effectively targeting the wrong people; the law abiding citizen and ONLY the law abiding citizen.
It's a nuisance, needless tax and HUGE waste of money on all Canadian citizens. Literally everyone who pays taxes is having a portion of their contribution thrown into the wind just to keep something alive that should've been axed a loooooong time ago. The system has proven to do jack shit. It's bureaucracy at it's finest.
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If the gun registry was scrapped, then when a fire arm is sold it would disappear into oblivion and it would become easier for it to find it's way into a criminals hands and tracking ownership prevents that, am I wrong? That's my understanding and it's really hard to sort through the tide of partisan bull shit and find solid answers.
I'm not a big supporter or the gun registry in it's current form, I'm sure the money could be used in a more effective way, I'm just a supporter of gun control. If a system were proposed where the registry were scrapped and the money directed towards a more effective system then I would be hugely in support of that.