The Truth About Guns
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Updated: July 13, 2009 4:56 PM
Editor:
Was Prof. Tim Quigley asleep in Logic 101 classes during his freshman year?
His argument that, quote, "at a time when the smuggling of handguns from the U.S. has increased, registration of rifles and shotguns must have helped achieve (a) dramatic reduction in gun deaths" is totally absurd.
The federal gun registry law of 1995-1998 has cost the Canadian taxpayer a fortune, and I doubt Prof. Quigley can point to one single instance where this legislation has saved a life.
The simple fact is that old-style breech-loading rifles and 12-gauge shotguns are not any longer used in the hunting of people — not by our soldiers overseas nor in our city street gang wars. To think otherwise would be tantamount to believe that anyone in his right mind would have gone up against the Earp brothers and 'Doc' Holliday at the O.K. Corral armed with only slingshots or pea shooters.
There are a number of reasons for this: sporting guns are cumbersome and cannot easily be concealed; they are noisy, slow working and relatively inaccurate if not even harmless — unless fired at very short range — when compared to the killing machines of today, machine pistols and automatic rifles that will sweep a wide arch with hundreds of bullets within a couple of seconds without even being aimed.
Government control of the ownership of sporting guns does not work, my dear Professor. That is the reality!
Rudy Langmann, Aldergrove
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