Letter: Alberta’s position on gun laws not relevant
Date: Mar 21, 2005 8:17 AM
PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star
DATE: 2005.03.21
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: A7
BYLINE: Gerry Gamble
SOURCE: Windsor Star

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Alberta’s position on gun laws not relevant

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R. King, Linking Gun Registry To RCMP Killings Misguided, March 16 destroys his
own argument for supporting the firearm registry in his first sentence when he correctly
states that, criminals don’t register stolen guns.

Since James Roszko didn’t register his guns, how could Alberta’s failure to support
the gun registry, which obviously only includes non-criminal guns, in any way contribute
to the deaths of the four RCMP officers?

Since criminal guns are unregistered, and therefore untraceable, how does R. King
propose that “all provinces support the registry, and get these prohibited
weapons out of the hands of individuals?”

Maybe the Liberals should have spent some of the $2 billion wasted on the firearm
registry to teach the police how to read minds, since that is the only way they
will know which criminals have firearms.

As an obvious supporter of the firearm registry, King’s last statement, “the
time has come to get the politics out of the firearms issue” is particularly
outrageous.

It was Liberal politics that gave us the registry in the first place, as they conveniently
ignored the fact that there was not a single example anywhere in the world where
registering the firearms of law-abiding citizens has ever decreased crime.

Gerry Gamble
St. Catharines