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 From: LC@dinkerson.com 
  
 In article , justaskmeforit@shaw.ca says... 
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 >> The registry also makes it very easy for the police to check up on the 
 >> 20,000 gun prohibition orders that are issued by the courts each year 
 >> now that guns are registered . 
 >> 
 >>  A call from a wife on the special domestic abuse line can also 
 >>  inform the police that an abusive husband has guns in the house and 
 >> they can remove them. 
 >> 
 >> As of 2003, the RCMP Tracing Unit  and the NWEST conducted more than 
 >> 60,000 firearms traces through the Candian Firearms Registry. 
 >> 
 >> And , of course, the police accessed the on-line Registry database 
 >> 5000 times a day and that number is escalating rapidly. 
 > 
 >But this has nothing to do with your statement that the registry revokes 
 >licenses. It does not. 
  
 How do you figure?  Seems to have everything to do with the registry aiding 
 in 
 the process of revoking liscences.  When the courts revoke a liscence, the 
 police now have the tool to make sure that a person who has had his lisence 
 revoked, gets rid of ALL his guns. 
  
  
 >> The myopia is unfortunately with the " aggressive" gun lovers who are 
 >> very anti-gun control and don't seem to be want to consider the safety 
 >> of non-gun owners which is the vast majority of the population. . Of 
 >> the 33 million population in Canada it has been estimated that only 
 >> 2.3 million own guns. 
 > 
 >Again, the safety of the public would be far better served by 
 >concentrating on criminals not firearms owners. I think you'll find that 
 >criminals are responsible for a statistically higher amount of crime 
 >than firearms owners. 
  
 In fact, criminals are statistically responsible for ALL crime!  Circular 
 arguments won't get you very far.. 
  
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