More proof...

[wilagro]

cowman: I have the complete set of regulations from both major changes to the so-called gun control act.

Rural operators can keep a gun handy for control of 'pests' alth'o it is not supposed to be loaded. I only keep 1 gun out as the rest are kept locked safely and cozily in their regulation cabinet. No kids around, just me, my dog and the occasional mouse.

No, I am not a crook but the feds made a lot of instant crooks with the asinine gun control act.

I know quite a few people who didn't get a license to own or possess firearms and of course did not register same.

I registered all of mine altho' it pissed me off because I was practically forced to do so.

[redhen]

Ouch, Cowman. An Alberta Redneck??? Heh heh. Red-Hen-neck.

Have to admit... I keep my .22 loaded with one in the chamber. Everyone in our adult family has taken the FAC courses. The off-the-record advice from the instructor was to shoot intruders to kill.

On our farm, the ability to react quickly to intruding predators has saved the lives of many ducks, geese and hens - even if I put a shot over the shoulder or rump of Wile E. Coyote or the stray dog of the week, instead of into the heart. While I respect the needs and intent of the law, I have a greater responsibility to protect my livestock, and my very accurate rifle allows me to do that with calmness and precision.

And what's that they say about an armed society being a polite society? I've often wondered how things like road rage would change if everyone was known to be authorised to carry a handgun. Would folks tend to think twice or at least count to 10 before becoming confrontational? It works in the natural world. I mean, who argues with a cougar, a grizzly or a skunk?

[ivbinconned]

Canada's billion-dollar gun registry employs 1,800 bureaucrats, who spend their days tracking down duck hunters and farmers. By comparison, Canada hired only 130 additional customs officers to protect our borders after Sept. 11.

Here are a few more eye-rolling facts about the gun registry, mostly unearthed by MP Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan.

Internal audits show that government bureaucrats have a 71% error rate in licensing gun owners and a 91% error rate in registering the guns themselves. The government admits it registered 718,414 guns without serial numbers. That means either the bureaucrats forgot to write them down, or the guns didn't have serial numbers in the first place. That's as useless as registering a vehicle simply as "a blue Ford Explorer."

* To these gun owners, the government has sent little stickers with made- up "serial numbers" on them, that gun owners are supposed to stick on their guns. And everybody at the gun registry is praying that criminals who steal those guns won't peel off the stickers.

* Some 222,911 guns were registered with the same make and serial number as other guns. That's not just useless-it's dangerous. If someone else with a "Blue Ford Explorer" is involved in a hit and run, you'll be the one getting a knock on the door by the RCMP.

* Out of 4,114,624 gun registration certificates, 3,235,647 had blank or missing entries-but the bureaucrats issued them anyway.

* In the beginning, the government's firearms licenses had photographs on them just like driver's licenses do. But after hundreds of gun owners were sent licenses with someone else's photo on them, the government decided to scrap photos on the licenses altogether, rather than fix the problem.

* Private details about every gun owner in the country are put on one computer database, called CPIC. That's valuable information to a peeping tom, or a criminal. The CPIC computer has been breached 221 times since the mid-1990s, according to the RCMP.

* In August of 2002, the gun registry sent a letter to Hulbert Orser, demanding he register his guns, and warning him that it's a crime not to register his firearms. Orser died in 1981.

* Garth Rizzuto is not dead, but he's getting older - he applied for a gun license 21/2 years ago. He hasn't been rejected. They're still "processing" his application.

* Some 304,375 people were allowed to register guns even though they didn't have a license permitting them to own a gun.
* On March 1 of 2002, bureaucrats registered Richard Buckley's soldering "gun". That's right, a heat "gun" used for welding tin and lead. No word yet on Buckley's staple guns or glue guns.

* Some 15,381 gun owners were licensed with no indication of having taken the gun safety courses-one of the main arguments for licensing. Despite the billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy, gun-owners must still pay $279 for the required licenses, registration, photo ID and other costs to register a single gun. That's as much as a gun costs in the first place. It's a tax – a tax on rural Canada.

* The government spent $29 million on advertising for the gun registry including $4.5 million to Group-Action, the Liberal ad firm now under RCMP investigation.

* But all of these follies are trivial compared to the central, unanswerable flaw in the gun
registry: Since only law-abiding gun owners will register their guns, how can the registry stop criminals?

[cowman]

This buddy of mine put his ball cap on sideways and wore one of those gag set of glasses with the big fake nose and mustache for his photograph! He sent it in thinking it was a great joke...was he surprized when they sent him back a license with this goofy picture on it! Incredible.

[ivbinconned]

From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia


Hi friends, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone,homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not! And criminals
still possess their guns!)

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly.

Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the Canadian evening news or hear your Member of Parliament
disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note Canadians, before it's too late!



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