Canadian Handgun Registry

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=4

"The government has admitted on three separate occasions . . . that since handgun registration was implemented in 1934, not one single crime in Canada has been solved using the national pistol registry."

It was also a case of simply military failure against a smaller and well organized force, that wasn't as well equiped, against what was at the time the most powerful military force in the nation.

>>40
Yeah? Well fuck your theory. Wikipedia states otherwise.

Civil oppression by British towards Americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
5 civilians killed

Oppression by Mongols towards Khwarezmids during occupation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols
Nishapur, Persia — ~1.7 million killed in assault
Merv, Persia — ~1.4 million killed in assault
Meru Chahjan, Persia — ~1.3 million killed in assault
Rayy, Persia — ~1.6 million killed in assault

Nothing you can say now can prove that the British were not very oppressive, the difference between oppression and the light oppression of the british is hueg like X box!

And... yeah, also, the Canadian Handgun Registry hasnt solved a crime since its creation in 1934.

>>42
I wasn't trying to say the Brits weren't oppressive.  I am against gun-control.  I think you misread my post...:D

>>44
Oh yeah, well I get it now, sorry. Well people should have the right to bear arms to protect themselves, but certain areas like schools and hospitals should be gun free zones with only security personnel with guns. Politicians should also accept the fact that people have the right to shoot them if they are pissed off enough. This will re-enforce to positive effects of public gunnery and lessen the bad effects.

What do you think?

>>45
Yes, only school personnel should have firearms in school zones... but, I think something needs to be done about how we define a "school zone."

For ex:  a lady walks down the street with a handgun in her purse.. if she's walking through a town, in many instances, it's not possible for her to keep two miles away from the local school. 

She could be breaking the law.. and heck, if you carry one in your car for protection, and drive by a school, you are a criminal as well. 

Heck, often, you won't even see the school, but will come within two miles of it, and will then become a criminal as well.  (if there were buildings in front of it obstructing your view)

Clearly, the present laws about the distance you can be from the school with firearms need to be changed.

>>46
And, speaking of which... what a good solution to stopping school shootings!

Seriously, think... what if all the teachers of the school had arms? Columbine probly wouldn't have happened if they did at that school.

>>47 That would be a sensible approach.  You forget that anti-gun people are not sensible.

The Canadians are also trying to get rid of their Firearm registry people.  Lets learn from their example:  it doesn't work.  It's a bureaucratic mess, doesn't actually help anything, and for the amount of money it would cost to implement it, we could just hire more police officers to actually help the crime cituation. 

It didn't work in Canada. 

>>49
Also numerous European countries have negative experience from gun registry. Too much work and it's ineribly hard to keep it in date resulting non-existant ghost guns. Then again registering arms of law-abiding citizens is like they would register amount of knives , hammers or other tools you have. Pure 1984 and stupid.

>>50
Not to mention how the Nazi's used it against the German people..

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