National Post: More than 40 letters in response to Wendy Cukier
Date: Jul 31, 2006 7:35 AM
PUBLICATION: National Post
DATE: 2006.07.31
EDITION: All but Toronto
SECTION: Issues & Ideas
PAGE: A11
BYLINE: Paul Russell
SOURCE: National Post

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The Week in Letters

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z The gun registry, pardon the predictable pun, is a favourite target of
many Post readers. Therefore it was not surprising that more than 40
letters came in after we published a letter from gun control advocate
Wendy Cukier last Monday, defending the gun registry. “Too bad
professional lobbyists like Wendy Cukier only seem to care about gun
deaths,” wrote Geordie Pickard. “If they really cared about the victims
of violent crime, maybe we’d have spent our money on something that
would help prevent all murders, regardless of method. A billion dollars
added to police budgets might have actually saved lives — not just
gotten people to switch from one weapon to another.”

Zoltan Horvath took issue with Cukier’s assertion that “… we know that
a rifle or a shotgun in the wrong hands is just as deadly as a handgun.”
After arguing that “a knife or a club or box cutters — could be just as
deadly as a handgun,” Horvath asked: “Should we have a knife registry?”
And after noting that most crimes are committed with unregistered guns,
Lionel Trudel asked readers to “imagine the ‘culture of safety’ Canada
would have if we had given a billion dollars to our police over the last
10 years instead of the waste that the registry produced? Let’s not make
the same mistake over the next 10.”

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