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From: C-FAR Date: Thursday, January 02, 2003 23:57:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FEDS SPEND MORE REGISTERING GUNS THAN FIGHTING CANCER Cancer Research in Canada: $33 million per year Gun Registration in Canada: $200 million per year The Canadian Cancer Society advises us that 70,000 Canadians will die from Cancer in 2002. For every cancer death the government pays out $471 per year in research. Yet,. one in three Canadians will get cancer in their lifetime and almost every Canadian family will have a loved one or someone they know die of cancer. Statistics Canada records show less than 1,000 Canadians will die from firearms incidents in 2002. Few of us have ever seen a violent crime where a gun is used. For every death due to a firearm, the Liberal government pays out $200,000 for firearms registration with the firearms act. Conclusion: The Liberal government is 425 times less concerned about cancer deaths than firearms deaths. To date they have already wasted well over a billion dollars on a gun registry that will not save lives as we all know that criminals who use guns during a crime will not going to be so foolish as to register their guns anyway. Just what are the Liberal's priorities? They sure aren't looking out for us! So just what can you do to help protect the future of Canada? To help put an end to this Liberal Government's fiscal madness of gun control registration call, write and fax your local Member of Parliament and demand that he/she put an end to Canada's gun control legislation. Tell them that you want the money spend on more important priorities such as health care, education, the old age pension fund or just paying down our national deficit. > >Protect democracy in Canada by making your voice count! Show our politicians that Canadians are fed up with government mismanagement and waste of our tax dollars. --------------------------------- The farce continues National Post Thursday, January 02, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT Canada's gun registry is a full-fledged farce. This is a program that was supposed to cost, in net terms, about $2-million. But thanks to Auditor-General Sheila Fraser, we now know the true cost will be 500 times that. In real democracies, leaders resign over this sort of thing. In Canada, they just shrug. What makes the issue so galling is that there is little evidence the registry will make even a small dent in gun violence. Its main effect will be to harass duck hunters and other lawful gun owners. Since criminals generally use guns that are stolen, or which are smuggled from the United States, they will not be inconvenienced by Ottawa's boondoggle. Given the ludicrous amount that had been spent on the registry, a reasonable person would have assumed we were at least getting a gold-plated program. But instead, the registry has been exposed as a fly-by-night operation incapable of meeting any of Ottawa's goals. Registry officials have already been forced to grant a six-month grace period to owners who have registered their guns by this week's deadline but not yet received a certificate. Now, we learn, the government has conceded that its bureaucrats have been unable to meet the last-minute registration rush. So rather than enforce its own deadline, the Firearms Centre, which runs the registry, is encouraging owners to send statements of intent to register in the future. Ottawa will grant those who submit their names and addresses a reprieve from being branded criminals -- a designation they would otherwise endure under Ottawa's idiotic law. There is no explanation for this snafu other than sheer incompetence. As Queen's University business professor Roger White pointed out to the Post last week, any decent administrator would have set staggered deadlines to avoid a single rush. Instead, the government set the same date for all 1.9-million licensed gun owners. True, matters have been complicated by owners' decisions to delay registration till the last moment as a form of protest. But surely, someone in this billion-dollar operation should have been able to anticipate the trend and plan accordingly. >From the time the gun registry was first announced in 1995, people with common sense knew it was a bad idea. But a billion dollars and a dozen setbacks later, the government still refuses to admit its mistake. 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