Flowers for the Registry

In which the Dawson Student Union goes to Ottawa to deliver flowers for the long-gun registry.

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[MyDSU108]

while all you fine folks are certainly entitled to your opinions, you debase yourself and your argumentation when you resort to name-calling and attacks.

it is possible to entertain a civilised discussion about how we can strike a balance between public safety and civil liberties.

as victims of gun violence, is is normal that our empathy leads us to want to keep the registry alive. it may not have worked at dawson, but it has and would continue to save lives elsewhere.

[Da2012Truth]

You brainless socialist idiots do realize that the DAWSON SHOOTING HAPPENED ENTIRELY WITH REGISTERED GUNS, right?

So how did your precious gun registry make a difference in your school's case? It didn't! Aside from having cost $2.2 billion dollars since it was implemented, it did absolutely nothing for nobody.

Not only did it save zero lives, it actually COST lives by diverting funds from actual life saving things such as more hospital beds or better social programs for the mentally ill.

[GerOffYeWeeBastard]

"This is what democracy looks like"?!?

NO! Democracy looks like: the overwhelming majority of Canadians wanting this useless white elephant gone!

Democracy does NOT look like opposition parties whipping a vote and forcing their MPs to IGNORE the will of their constituents!

Democracy does NOT look like public sector union brass IGNORING the wishes of many of their members and applying political pressure to preserve this egregious abortion!

You little twits have a great deal to learn...

[pittsky]

There is going to be a block party where I live when this thing finally dies.

[dljprogun]

long-gun registry

(RIH) rest in hell

you waset of time and cash

[neebs1992]

@MyDSU108 Ah yes, because people of your stripe are totally above name calling. I seem to remember being called a murderer waiting to happen, racist and a psychopath just because I like firearms. You'd have nothing to do with that, right? Piss off, you and all your friends in the grave dancing, fear mongering, victim industry can't even pretend to take a position on any morally super pedestals any longer. It won't be tolerated. Nice try, though.

[UCSPanther20]

@sendmorebrains

Don't forget: They also specifically targeted their laws towards Jews, Gypsies, other so-called "undesirables", political dissidents and civilians in occupied zones. 

[quedorf]

@Da2012Truth Your Dawson college evidence is proof only that gun registration has not stopped ALL gun crimes, which is a claim not made by anyone. Conversely you made a claim that it saved "zero lives", and this is a positive claim made by you. You then have the burden of proof to give evidence to prove your claim, or it is purely conjecture and opinion. 

[quedorf]

@pittsky If you are referring to the Randy Kuntz poll, the Editor of Blue Line Magazine has distanced himself and the magazine from the poll saying "Randy Kuntz went on national news to support his anti firearms registry position by pointing to me and "Blue Line Magazine". His attempt to damage the magazine's neutral position is out of line along with semi-breaching the sanctity of this section of the Forum.", And Kuntz himself said he is the "first to admit the survey is not scientific."

[pittsky]

@quedorf

Every poll of frontline police officers is AGAINST the gun registry.

Edmonton police Service: 81% against

Sask police officers: 98% against

BlueLine Magazine national poll: 82 % against

[pittsky]

So far in the two committe meetings discussing the long gun registry, the gun grabbers have been verbally trounced by logic and empirical data.

Every single frontline police officer who has testified, has spoken out for scrapping the gun registry.

In a national poll 82% of frontline police officers said the gun registry was useless.

[quedorf]

@GerOffYeWeeBastard Actually support for and against the registry is pretty evenly split, and the trend in 2010 polls were that support to keep the registry was rising.

[sendmorebrains]

Nazi Weapons Act of 1938 (Translated to English)

Classified guns for "sporting purposes".

All citizens who wished to purchase firearms had to register with the Nazi officials and have a background check.

Presumed German citizens were hostile and thereby exempted Nazis from the gun control law.

Gave Nazis unrestricted power to decide what kinds of firearms could, or could not be owned by private persons.

The types of ammunition that were legal were subject to control by bureaucrats.