ERNIE BEADLE – In defence of your position, I totally agree we need gun control, however that control already exists, and it is very stringent on who can own a gun and who can’t
For some time now
a local Kamloops Liberal supporter has been taking shots at the Conservative Party
over any number of things – all of them negative. In a recent exchange he accused the party of
been against pretty much any and all gun control legislation. Ernie Beadle, of
Kamloops, took exception to that – this is his response:
For the
record, it was the Conservatives in 1990 who were the FIRST government to bring
in gun registry, NOT the Liberals! Then
in 1993, under Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien, he further pushed this
registry (The Firearms
Act was introduced in
1993, and aimed at the licensing of all gun owners and registration of all
firearms. The bill also classified replica firearms as prohibited devices, with
those already owned being grandfathered).
Move
ahead to 1996, and we have Alan Rock (Justice Minister in the Liberal
government) telling all Canadians that the Gun Registry would only cost $2 million
dollars – meantime in December of 2002, Auditor General Sheila Fraser reported
to parliament that through poor management by the federal Liberals, the gun
registry would cost over $1 BILLION dollars to set up by the year 2004!
During
the 10 years of reign of Liberal Prime Minister Chretien, they allowed this
program to cost taxpayers in excess of $1 billion dollars to implement, and
then did absolutely nothing to stop this bizarre bleeding of taxpayer dollars.
When
the program started in 1993 costs were to be $2 million -- by 1995 they were
already $119 million -- in 2001 costs had reached $527 million – by 2002 costs had
risen to $629 million -- and by 2004 it was at over a BILLION dollars.
And
what did it solve?
Absolutely
nothing, and if you people want to try to argue this, I will give you the Stats
Can facts on murders since 1993, to date. It will embarrass you and your
argument, so I suggest you don’t go there!
In defense of your position, I totally agree we need gun control, however that
control already exists, and it is very stringent on who can own a gun, and who
can’t.
This is
not the issue.
The federal
Liberals tried to buy votes by telling the misinformed public that there were
going to save Canada with this gun registry ... and it did absolutely nothing
to stop murders because ... criminals do not register their firearms. Instead they still buy illegal guns, and
bring them into Canada to commit their crimes. This is he real problem, and it
is created by criminals, not the general public. Still, this vote buying exercise, by the
Liberals, cost taxpayers $1billion dollars!
If the
federal Liberals really want to solve gun and fire arms related problems, rather
than screw the taxpayers with their ill-conceived registry, they should go
after the criminals, NOT the law-abiding citizens of Canada!
That, is
the root of the problem and the true facts.
PLEASE NOTE ... according
to Statistics Canada between 2013 and 2016,
there was a 20% increase in homicides in Canada.
This
was driven by a substantive increase (+68%) in gang-related homicides over that
period. From 2013 to 2016, gang-related homicides occurring in CMAs
(Central Metropolitan Areas) almost doubled (from 65 to 121), driven by increases in
Toronto (from 13 to 33), Edmonton (3 to 11), and Ottawa (0 to 7).
In
2013, about one in four (27%) homicides were committed with a firearm. By 2016,
four in ten (38%) homicides involved a firearm.
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