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Gun registration not working - J.M. Belfry

I am sleeping better knowing Paul Martin has promised to ban handguns. I know every criminal in Canada is quaking in their boots just waiting to turn in their unregistered handguns because the prime minister has finally laid down the law.

I am sleeping better knowing Paul Martin has promised to ban handguns.

I know every criminal in Canada is quaking in their boots just waiting to turn in their unregistered handguns because the prime minister has finally laid down the law. I'm sure right now they are bunkering down to discuss how they will willingly turn over their guns to the police with the cash reward amnesty program proposed, and collect their cash so that our streets may be safer. I'd like to be a fly on the wall with them, just as much I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the Liberal war room financed by our tax dollars to make this strategy work.

Martin seems to forget that handguns have been strictly regulated since 1934. The system worked well and efficiently until the 1995 attack on innocent hunters, farmers, and anyone else that may have a cherished family heirloom. Almost two billion dollars later we can see how well that plan worked. It has more to do with appeasing the gun- shocked people of the vote-rich GTA that sit comfortably in their affluent homes watching the violence in their city and say," It's only Jane and Finch."

J.M. Belfry
Cardiff