Gun Registry

Look, there is no doubt that the Gun Registry has been badly managed. 


There is no doubt that part of it's goals were not met, in so much as many people, realizing that they were about to lose a weapon, just didn't register it. There is also no doubt that a lot of it makes no logical sense (a .32 revolver is some how automatically more dangerous than a .22 long rifle pistol? eh? what?).


There is also no doubt that the registration fees should have been lower , either less per gun or a one time bigger fee for the lot. 


Probably everyone should have gotten an amnesty, everything legal you had you registered, everything illegal you got rid of without getting charged (I'm sorry, but people who have assault rifles and want to cry about how they need them can kiss my big, pasty urban ass). 


But, given all of that, the registry itself makes perfect sense. 


Look, firearms are weapons. Our society as a whole has decided that this class of weapons are more dangerous than other classes of weapons (this is to head off the "knives kill to you know" folks). Certainly, in urban areas, where more Candians live this is completly true. Thus, our society would like very much to keep track of them.


In the end, my thoughts go like this, register every gun, provide an amnesty/grandfather clause for all guns, have random checks to see if the guns are with who they are supposed to be with, and move on from there. 


People need to get over this idea that we, as Canadians, have some inherent right to own firearms. Because we don't. We never have had this right. 


Hell, Americans don't either, not in the way that they think they do, it's just that no one ever reads past the semi-colon at the end of "That right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;