Letter: Gun registry is useless
Date: Apr 11, 2006 8:19 AM
PUBLICATION: The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo)
DATE: 2006.04.11
EDITION: Final
SECTION: OPINION
PAGE: A6
BYLINE: Kirill Stepanchuk
WORD COUNT: 131

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Gun registry is useless

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In response to the April 6 editorial, Keep The Gun Registry, everyone
who wishes to keep the gun registry always brings up a few statements
made by the leadership of the Canadian Professional Police Association
and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.

If they were to interview regular police officers instead of political
appointees, they would find that the registry is beyond useless. The
registry is suspected to be the reason behind the latest string of gun
thefts, yet nobody can cite a single case where the registry was
essential in solving a crime.

Saying that the registry is useful because it is queried every time
licence plates are checked during a traffic stop is ignorant at best and
deceitful at worst.

Kirill Stepanchuk
Waterloo