they may want to remember this gem
National Review 2-23-13
By Charles C. W. Cooke
Quote:
(Re: Canada's LONG gun Registry)
When, as the culmination of a piecemeal process that began in 1995, the registry was created in 2003, Canada’s parliament promised that its cost would not exceed $2 million. By 2012, the registry had cost taxpayers $2.7 billion — a 134,900 percent increase on projections. (In the U.S., a registry costing the same amount per person would run $67 billion over the same time.) For this considerable outlay, the government reaped a homicide rate that dropped more slowly than that of the United States, a country in which gun laws have been slowly liberalized; a collection of disillusioned (Canadian) police forces, whose budgets were being eaten up by the growing costs of gun registration; and an angry citizenry whose indignation, ... was serious enough to create a peculiar coalition of the Reform, Progressive, Conservative, and New Democratic parties and to wipe out the Liberal party in the West. The registry was abolished in 2012.
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And these idiots here in the U.S. want to do the same thing. It is estimated that the cost of maintaining a LONG gun registry would cost OVER $67 Billion on the outset. This at a time when we're practically broke.
Ah yes, but the anti gun mindset is so flawed in many ways.