Just as legal gun owners predicted, the impact that the Canadian Gun Registry, has had on crime is negligible. That is a according to a report put out by the Fraser Institute (an independant research organization). You would think after spending 2 billion dollars on such an initiative there should be and effective outcome. It was actually 2 billion dollars that was spent on the wrong thing.
A portion of the report reads,
Vancouver, BC – Canada’s homicide rate and number of gang-related murders has increased since the federal government’s firearms registry and licensing program was implemented, an indication that the program has failed to improve public safety, according to Hubris in the North, The Canadian Firearms Registry, a new report from independent research organization The Fraser Institute. In 1995, the government promised Canadians that the gun registry would reduce total criminal violence, suicide and domestic abuse, not just gun violence,” said Gary Mauser, author of the report, senior fellow with The Fraser Institute, and a professor at Simon Fraser University. But the legislation has failed to do that, primarily because it relies upon public-health research to justify a moralistic approach to firearms that exaggerates the danger of citizens owning firearms through pseudoscientific research methods.” Entire Article Here
Have a look at the report (it is available for download) and come to your own conclusions. Imagine if the 2 billion dollars had been spent on actual law enforcement?
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The ‘Fraser Institute’? Please consider your sources.
Absolutely agree!
This proves something I, and many others, have always said. Criminals don’t obey laws.
Laws made to restrict guns will only keep them out of the hands of law abiding citizens who would have otherwise used a gun to protect themselves. Those laws won’t do anything to stop criminals who use guns.
That’s the definition of criminal, someone who breaks the law.