CANADA’S GUN REGISTRATION FAILURE: VIOLENT CRIME RATE DOUBLE THAT OF U.S.
Date: Jan 19, 2006 12:27 AM
NEWS RELEASE

CANADA’S GUN REGISTRATION FAILURE: VIOLENT CRIME RATE
DOUBLE THAT OF U.S.

BELLEVUE, WA ? Canada’s billion-dollar boondoggle ? the
national gun registration scheme ? has proven itself an
abysmal failure, as that country’s violent crime rates are
double those reported in the United States, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) noted
today.

“We looked at violent crime rates per 100,000 population in
both countries, using the most recent available data,” said
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and we were not surprised at
what we found. Since Canada started this ridiculous and
costly program, violent crime has gone up dramatically, at
the same time that crime in the United States has declined.
Yet, there are people in the states who think Canada’s gun
legislation should be the model for America.

“By comparing the data,” he detailed, “we found that the
violent crime rate in the United States was 475 per 100,000
population, while up north, there were 963 violent crimes
per 100,000 population. The figure for sexual assault in
Canada per 100,000 population is more than double that of
the United States, 74 as opposed to 32.1, and the assault
rate in Canada is also more than twice that of the states,
746 to our 295 for the population rate.”

Noted CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron: “What happened
in the states to actually contribute to a reduction in our
overall crime rate is simple. We’ve got 38 states with
shall-issue, right-to-carry concealed handgun laws. While
Canada has clamped down on its citizens’ gun rights, our
citizens have been empowered against criminals by passage of
these laws. The disparity in crime rates between the two
countries says it all about how well gun registration works
to stop crime, as opposed to actually carrying guns to deter
criminals, and fight back if necessary.”

A Jan. 3 story in Canada’s National Post by writer David
Frum confirmed CCRKBA’s independent finding. Frum wrote,
“Canada’s overall crime rate is now 50% higher than the
crime rate in the United States.” Later, Frum added: “Gun
registries and gun bans?do not work.”

“Instead of promising to ban legally-owned handguns in
Canada,” Waldron observed, “Prime Minister Paul Martin
should be urging citizens to arm themselves. He should
encourage Parliament to scrap gun registration and replace
it with a gun ownership and training program.”

“Since going on the warpath against guns, Canada’s Liberals
have presided over the sharpest rise in violent crime in the
nation’s history,” Gottlieb said. “There are more rapes,
more robberies and more murders. If that tells Canadian
citizens anything at all, it’s that Paul Martin and his
Liberals have literally been ?dead wrong’ on guns.”

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