Letter: Time has come to scrap gun registry
Date: Jun 22, 2005 8:22 AM
PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star
DATE: 2005.06.22
EDITION: Final
SECTION: Editorial/Opinion
PAGE: A9
BYLINE: Richard Robinson
SOURCE: Windsor Star

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Time has come to scrap gun registry

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The auditor general has acknowledged she’s doing a follow-up audit of
the gun registry to check on the “fixes.” We can only guess at what that
audit alone will cost us taxpayers. This is to see if the (literally)
tons of money spent fixing a government boondoggle project is being
well-spent and adequately controlled. That’s like saying we want to make
sure our diligent politicians are igniting piles of our tax dollars
efficiently while making bonfires of wasted money, as they don’t want to
be accused of overspending on matches.

Is anybody out there listening or thinking? The climbing rate of gun
violence in this country has proven to even the most avid registry
supporters that registering the guns of hunters and sport shooters does
absolutely nothing to curb the criminal, violent use of guns. Why are we
not scrapping the registry and returning to common sense laws and
controls that limit types, storage and uses as well as safety training
for sport purposes.

Those laws work well without the registry. The money saved could be then
used in law enforcement, etc.

Richard Robinson
Windsor