Halifax RCMP Supt. Darrell Beaton said an RCMP evaluation of Canadian firearm programs showed that long-gun related homicides have dropped since stricter controls started in 1991, from 271 that year to 190 in 2006.
The evaluation also stated that even though opponents of long-gun registration say there is a lack of criminal activity involving long guns, 2005 statistics show they were used in 25 per cent of shooting deaths. That number climbed to 72 per cent for spousal shootings and 10 of 13 police officers killed on the job were murdered with long guns.
What does it all mean? If we could only get rid of the handguns, we too could have a high percentage of shooting deaths from long guns. Then we could go after them. This sounds like the perfect blueprint for total gun elimination. I wonder if I've discovered something here. Maybe I could sell this idea to someone. What do you think?
> Maybe I could sell this idea to someone.
ReplyDeleteToo bad they're not paying.
Darrell Beaton said an RCMP evaluation of Canadian firearm programs showed that long-gun related homicides have dropped since stricter controls started in 1991, from 271 that year to 190 in 2006.
ReplyDeleteWow--the Canadian long gun registry was effective--it somehow managed to cause violent crime to plummet even across the border in the States, too, over the same time period.
Jadefool's Biggest (Only?) Cheerleader:
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like the perfect blueprint for total gun elimination.
Might work in most of the world, where Constitutional protection for the right to possess, not just guns in general, but even handguns in particular, is not a settled point of Constitutional law. Good of you, though, to make sure no one forgets the intended endpoint of the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's agenda.
It has, after all, been a while since your side has been so open about it:
I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. We're going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily-given political realities-going to be a very modest. of course, it's true that politicians will then go home and say, 'This is a great law. The problem is solved. . . .' So then we'll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. . . . Our ultimate goal-total control of handguns in the United States-is going to take time. My estimate is seven to ten years. The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal.
That was Nelson "Pete" Shields, former director of the National Council to Control Handguns, which eventually became Handgun Control, Inc., which eventually became the Brady Campaign Against Liberty.
Fortunately, Shields is dead, hopefully having passed in utterly horrid agony.
"total gun elimination" was a joke. Sorry for not saying that.
ReplyDeleteJadefool's Biggest (Only?) Cheerleader:
ReplyDelete"total gun elimination" was a joke. Sorry for not saying that.
Aw, hell--just when I thought I was starting to figure your bizarre sense of humor out.