With the tabling of legislation to finally scrap the long-gun registry, the Harper government's further directive to destroy all the data is a mammoth victory of the people over Big Brother, writes the Calgary Sun newspaper.
The Liberal governments of both Ontario and Quebec are incensed, of course, and both have expressed intent to toss good money after the $2-billion of Jean Chretien's bad money in order to set up their own back-door long-gun registries.
To inflict such idiocy now in order to appease their urban bases will mean starting from scratch. In other words, it will be a no-go.
Critics keep bringing up the nonsense that police agencies across this country relied heavily on the registry's database when, in fact, it was primarily their police chiefs who advocated its continuance -- but only because their political masters demanded they toe the urban line.
They also claim the police access the registry 17,000 times a day, but don't tell you the registry's database is automatically booted into action basically whenever a driver's license is routinely inputted.
So don't believe, even for a second, that police use the registry 17,000 times a day looking for guns. That's fiction.
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