Canadian Corruption: Gunscam

There also is a piece at Captain's Quarter on this. He also goes into a bit on the "checks and balances" that don't exist in the Canadian government. (I found that bit fascinating.)

Originally expected to be self-financing by 1999-2000, Fraser and her auditors discovered the target for the firearms program to break even was pushed back to 2013 -- an assumption it would collect $419 million in fees in 2002-03 and $828 million by 2007-08.

Now that is an expensive and useless tool. Wonder where all that money is going.

This Editorial goes into the failings.

And as we've all seen - and as the critics predicted - the registry has failed as an effective tool in combating urban street crime, which was how the Liberals sold it to Canadians.

Why? Two reasons.

First, the main purpose of Bill C-68 was to extend gun registration to so-called "long guns" for the first time - rifles and shotguns. Unfortunately, grandpa's gopher gun is not the weapon of choice for violent, urban gangsters.

Their preferred weapons are handguns, which law-abiding Canadians have been required to register since 1934. Yet criminals still manage to get their hands on them, despite the registry. That should have been a big clue for the Liberals 10 years ago about how well the long-gun registry would work.

Which brings us to the second big (and obvious) problem with the registry, which is, as virtually every critic has pointed out over the years, that criminals don't register their guns.

Of course, the Liberals will never admit to this blunder.

I'm still trying to figure out why all the Bush haters keep braying about going to Canada. Putting together very costly useless systems isn't helping with crime and the corruption being shown in the government is appalling, yet they are still viewed as better off than under the present administration.

Go figure.