Nothing wrong with gun registry
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Updated: November 17, 2009 3:45 PM
Editor: Your editorial (The Times, Nov. 6) expressing gratification at the possible destruction of the rifle registry concerns me. I’ve owned a rifle, on and off, most of my life, and I’ve yet to discover any practical utilty in one. You can’t even shovel snow with it.
It’s a dangerous instrument, at least in the hands of some people. Consider the four dead RCMP officers in Mayerthorpe, Alberta.
If I still owned a rifle, I’d register it and comply with the law, as have most gun owners over the past 15 years.
I do believe that this non-existent groundswell really comes from a highly-motivated public relations push, giving voice to the fatuous notion that our democratic rights depend upon the rights of every man to take up arms in their defence. This thinking is from the American National Rifle Association.
Do you honestly believe our democracy is so fragile that we’re any safer today without the registry? If there’s any threat, it’s from political games and a government so witless that it can be so easily coerced.
Charles Perkins,
Langley
