Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Kill Bill C-391,the Long Gun Registry

CPC MP Candice Hoeppner has sponsored Bill C-391 to scrap the ineffective costly long gun registry. The third and final vote comes up in approximately a month from now. Liberal MPs who had previously supported Candice's Bill will now vote against it because their leader,Iffy says he will now whip his members. Three Lib MPs have three different reasons. for changing their minds.
Three Liberal MPs, three different reasons why they will now vote against a private member's bill to repeal the long-gun registry — or at least, why they won't be voting for it.
And only one of them says it's because of the party whip.
It is clear though one Liberal MP is conflicted. Larry Bagnell, MP from the Yukon. What is he to do?
As for Larry Bagnell, Yukon MP, “there won’t be a choice” in how he is expected to vote. “It’s certainly not easy,” he said.

“It’s easier this time, in the sense that Ignatieff’s put forward a compromise, which no other Liberal leader has,” said Bagnell.
So it's now up to the NDP whether the registry will be scrapped or not.  Twelve NDP members had supported Bill C-391 before and I hope they will continue to support Candice and her bill.  The NDP suggests that  some Lib MPs will skip the vote when it comes up but Doorknob Wayne Easter claims  that's not an option. Have we not all heard that story before? That's what they've been doing it since 2006, why should they change now?
Several NDP MPs, who have a free vote, have suggested that some Liberal MPs may not show up.
But that’s not an option, said Easter.
“I’ve found it more troublesome often to not to show up, than to vote. Not showing up is...just not the way to do it,” he said, before adding:
Those MPs better remember who they actually work for.  They work for their constituents not their party or interest groups.
Meantime the National Post editorial lays out a good reason for killing the bill.
We stand among the abolitionists. The gun registry criminalizes law-abiding gun owners by penalizing them if they fail to register their guns. Yet it scantly inconveniences actual criminals, who don't register their guns anyway. Moreover, the cost of the program, estimated at over $2-billion, is far out of proportion to the theoretical effectiveness of the registry in preventing crime (though, admittedly, most of that money is a sunk cost). Even if it were true that a life or two had been saved because of the registry, orders of magnitude more good could be done with that money if it were instead invested in any number of other areas -- from projects to target cybercrime and child pornography, to programs to divert the at-risk youth who might one day be tempted to join the ranks of criminal gun-toters.
It's time to pressure those opposition MPs who previously supported Bill C-391 not to cave, stand up for their constituents and support Candice one more time to finally get rid of this cumbersome, intrusive, money sucking program.

12 comments:

  1. O/T,

    Liberals lash out at 'startling' Tory patronage
    Gloria Galloway

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-lash-out-at-startling-tory-patronage/article1683282/

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  2. National Post · Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

    The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police lost the ear of the cop on the street a long time ago.

    Sergeant Steve Flanagan (ret'd), Ottawa.
    .

    http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/chiefs+their+police+would+only+ones+Canada+with+guns/3439612/story.html

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  3. O/T,

    Liberals lash out at 'startling' Tory patronage
    Gloria Galloway

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/liberals-lash-out-at-startling-tory-patronage/article1683282/


    Oh puhlease! Oh no, they haven't done anything like that now have they? Liberals had it down to a fine science.Iffy would do it in a heart beat. No matter what political stripe, any PM would do likewise even the NDP. You don't think,Jack Layton wouldn't do it if he had the chance now would he?

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  4. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police lost the ear of the cop on the street a long time ago.

    That's for sure. I can't find a link but there was a rank and file police officer in Edmonton that took a survey of over 2000 rank and file officers on the street all over the country and an overwhelming majority are in favor of scrapping the registry. This officer was I think talking to Roy Green in for Charles Adler the other day.

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  5. Hi farmgirl, I will try this again. For some reason my password to google quit working.
    Easter let slip that one of his constituents is holding him to account over trouble with the gun registry.Easter is all talk and no action!

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  6. William in Ajax said...

    The CACP says firearm-related deaths decreased by 43% between 1991 and 2005 because of the registry.
    Liars...
    The registry didn't exist in 1991, it wasn't even proposed until 1995 and didn't become law
    until 2002.!

    How in hell do LIARS become police chiefs.?

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  7. Easter let slip that one of his constituents is holding him to account over trouble with the gun registry.Easter is all talk and no action!

    I think Easter and others whose constituents in rural ridings want the registry gone could very well pay at polls.

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  8. The CACP says firearm-related deaths decreased by 43% between 1991 and 2005 because of the registry.
    Liars...
    The registry didn't exist in 1991, it wasn't even proposed until 1995 and didn't become law
    until 2002.!


    Thanks for that tidbit of info. That fact is something that is certainly is not told to the public.
    The government HAS to get out there and correct that piece of misinformation otherwise the public will be none the wiser. The opposition should know better especially the Liberals since they were the government in charge of this fiasco.Where is the media? Why don't they do their homework and correct that information? But then again why should they,they love the registry after all. Furthermore don't they read?

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  9. Iffy's 'compromise' boils down to
    -don't register, but if you are caught, the law doesn't apply to you... for the first offence

    So is that like the first time you are caught drinking and driving, you get a free pass?
    How stupid is that!

    Either it is a federal offence or it's not.
    There is NO compromise.

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  10. I heard an interview on Rutherford at QR770 Calgary the other day and I did not catch what police force the constable is from. This is what was said. They sent out a questionnaire to their members asking a simple "Do you support the gun registry"? The result was 2400 NO 200 Yes. I would say that is a very good indication where the rank and file police stand on this matter.

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  11. long guns do not kill people criminals kill people
    criminals have been known to use stones, baseball bats, knives, nylon stockings, pillows, ropes, etc., the list is unending
    as a law abiding taxpayer of Canada stop wasting my money on the long gun registry use it to put more police officers on the streets

    fh

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  12. criminals have been known to use stones, baseball bats, knives, nylon stockings, pillows, ropes, etc., the list is unending

    Exactly! What the anti-gun lobby doesn't realize is that anything can be used as a weapon to kill or injure someone.

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