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Friday - February 17, 2012

Canada Tastes Reality, Québécois Offended

Even the mad socialists finally figured out what we told them a decade ago.

Canada Ends Rifle Registry: “It don’t work, eh!”

The Conservative government says its MPs will celebrate after a historic vote to end the long-gun registry Wednesday evening, despite vehement opposition to the move in Quebec and much of urban Canada.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told reporters Wednesday, hours before the vote, that the government’s actions are long overdue.

“It does nothing to help put an end to gun crimes, nor has it saved one Canadian life,” he said.

No, really?

“It criminalizes hard-working and law-abiding citizens such as farmers and sport shooters, and it has been a billion-dollar boondoggle left to us by the previous Liberal government.”

The federal law will end the requirement for lawful gun owners to register their long guns, and it relaxes rules around selling or transferring guns. Gun licences for individuals will still be required, and the registry for restricted and prohibited firearms such as handguns will be maintained.

So what this means is that our cousins to the north now have a tiny bit of freedom, but still not very much at all. Baby steps in the right direction. But wait, there’s more. It gets better. Part of the bill demands that all the secret data that the authorities (the RCMP) have been keep on citizens and their guns will be purged. Well, the info about non-restricted firearms at any rate. That IS a blow for freedom, which is why the rabid jackbooted thug Socialist left (48% of Canadian government) is demanding that this data be preserved. Must be able to round up the citizens at 3am whenever we feel like it, don’t you dare toss this info that tells us where every single gun and round of ammunition in the country is!

Michael Patton, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, said the gun registry’s central database is located in an RCMP headquarters in Ottawa. Since only data for non-restricted guns will be removed, the officials are still deciding how to carefully sift out what to delete and what to keep. He said he could not predict exactly how long the deletion of all long-gun data would take.
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Once the bill is finally passed into law, Quebec will immediately seek an injunction from the courts to halt the destruction of the registry data.

Jeff Larivee, whose wife was killed in the 1989 Montreal massacre, is a spokesman for the Coalition for Gun Control. He said he and many other Quebecers feel outrage at the Harper government’s determination to dismantle laws that, for many, serve as a memorial.

Law as a memorial? Assuage your grief by restricting other people’s freedoms? Classic far left behavior; the world view of a 12 year old. “I’ve suffered, so now everyone else must pay.” Get your noggin to the shrink Jeff, and try and deal with your belligerence and find some closure. Stop blaming society for the acts of one murderer.

More than two billion dollars pissed away for a program that was utterly and completely worthless from the beginning. Which they knew, because we told them often enough. But it made the lefties feeeel all warm and fuzzy, and that’s what national debt is for, right? Hosers.

See More Below The Fold

The Canadian gun registry was started as a reaction to the 1989 massacre at Montreal’s L’Ecole Polytechnique, in which a man took a semi-automatic rifle and killed fourteen women and wounded ten more and four men. What PC buries is that the killer, known to the media as Marc Lépine, was actually born as Gamil Gharbi. You got it, this was a case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome by a woman hating jizzlamic crazy person (sorry for the redundancy), though he never claimed that he was killing for Allah. No, he was just killing women, and was an unhinged nutcase. Pot, meet kettle. Antoine Fisher syndrome, or else it was genetic.

Gharbi was an unbalanced anti-social nutjob his entire life, and the only thing he ever picked up from his abusive Algerian misogynist father was that the feminist movement was ruining the world. Gharbi filled out the long gun purchase request forms, was granted approval, and bought himself a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle, and spent a couple of months planning his attack. When he carried it out, he first entered a crowded classroom at the school and ordered the 50 - FIFTY - men inside to leave. Not one of them was armed or had any gumption, so they did. He then proceeded to shoot all the women in the room, killing more than half of them, before moving to other areas of the school and continuing his rampage. Eventually he shot himself and died.

Canada already had a permission slip system in place when Gharbi went off the deep end, so making it even harder to purchase a firearm was a meaningless gesture. Banning certain types of firearms was equally meaningless: although Gharbi used a semi-automatic weapon, a “civilian assault rifle” that was legally purchased, it is said that he had tried (and failed) to convert it to fully automatic fire, and had to cycle the action manually after each shot. Thus his rate of fire was no greater than that of a bolt gun or a single shot weapon.

The legislation to remove this worthless and wasteful bill was introduced last October, although Conservatives in Canada have been fighting against it (and sometimes almost winning) since it’s kneejerk inception 20+ years ago.

And the truly horrible part of it? Even under the national registration system, Gharbi would have been able to purchase his weapon and go on his rampage, just as he legally purchased it under the previous system. The only thing that the more recent system would have done is to restrict him to 5 round magazines, which can be changed on a Mini-14 in well under a second.

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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