Gun Registry

A CBC article about the Dawson College shootings last year has some of the victims calling to keep the federal gun registry:

On Sept. 13, Kimveer Gill, a death-obsessed gun club member, burst into the college with three firearms, including a Beretta Cx4 Storm semi-automatic carbine, and opened fire.

An 18-year-old business student, Anastasia De Sousa, was killed and 19 others were wounded before Gill, whose weapons were legally registered, shot himself.

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One of the victims (Hayder Kadhim) is quoted:

"Back in the spring, they [the Conservative party] argued that the gun registry was useless because criminals don't buy their guns legally. Now the Harper government argues that the registry is ineffective because the shooter's firearms were totally legal. There's an obvious contradiction in their arguments.

"I don't understand why the Conservative government wants to dismantle the gun registry, which costs next to nothing to maintain.

Umm, the shooter's firearms were registered and he shot people. Some other murders are committed with unregistered guns. Either way, the registry does not help solve the problem.

And it "costs next to nothing to maintain"? Come on, this is the government we're talking about. In my opinion, the registry is a huge waste of money already. Let's not keep pouring money into it.

I do feel for the victims and their families, who have to recover from this horrific incident. How about calling for more police services and more mental health services, so we can actually prevent some crime?

It's not guns who kill people, it's people who kill people.