Our Neighbors to the North
Peter Worthington of the Toronto Sun:
Arguably, the most useless boondoggle ever implemented by a Canadian government is gun registration – a step towards confiscation.
It’s not the horrendous cost of nearly $1 billion (so far) that’s the scandal – shucks, governments waste that all the time, witness our submarines that leak. It’s that gun control may actually increase violent crime. The feds already fudge figures to pretend it works.
A new book in the U.S. by Richard Poe, The Seven Myths of Gun Control – is concise and powerful and should be required reading.
Poe has amassed impressive evidence that lack of guns among the public – in any country – increases burglaries and the criminal use of guns. Britain and Australia have already experienced this.
They’ll be coming around soon.
