Posted this at time.com boards at
http://boards.pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@158.IHynaa8MwIw^27@.eeaf12b/199
That should stir the pot.
Anyone who wishes may send this to their legislator to give them a feel for just how deep the manure pile they are about to step in is.
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You may have noticed that I highlighted the "7 to 10 million" in my post at jimpeel 1/7/00 12:27pm
I did this because this number is only for handguns. On the other hand, Canada has 3 to 7 million firearms of all types. If there are 250 million firearms in the United States and
California has ~12% of the nation's population, it follows logically that Californians would possess ~30 million firearms of all types. Note the following from the Canada National
Review and how much Canada has spent in its first year of firearms registration of their 7 to 10 million firearms of all types:
You may heve to "cut 'n paste" some of the links.
(11-12-99)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=national&f=991112/125638.html
Ontario minister fumes over gun registry costs
Justice Department officials acknowledge Ottawa spent $195-million to set up the registration system at the Canadian Firearms Centre in Miramichi, N.B., and a separate facility
in Montreal, even though the government had said it would only cost $85-million, spread over five years.
In addition to the start-up costs, the government estimates it will cost $100-million this fiscal year and a similar amount annually over the next two years to operate the system
until it is functioning smoothly. Once that happens, the operating budget is to average $60-million over a 10-year period.
"Your government has already spent almost $295-million on the registration system," Mr. Tsubouchi complained in the Nov. 10 letter, which was also sent to the National Post.
"To put this in perspective, Ontario is investing $150-million into helping police services hire up to 1,000 new front-line officers on the streets of our province ... It means that the
$295-million your government is spending creating a large bureaucracy and red tape could have been spent on almost 1,900 new front-line officers."
(Emphasis added)
Also read the following from the same paper:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=991110/123395.html
Gun registry spending soars to $100M this year (11-10-99)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?f=991111/124223.html
RCMP warns of soaring costs of gun registry (11-11-99)
http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary.asp?s2=editorials&f=991113/126698.html
Backfiring registry (11-13-99)
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=national&f=991124/135250.html
Consultants find gun registry 'inflexible and inefficient' (11-24-99)
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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
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