** I promote a uniformed set of laws** which would include registration of all Handguns
Why? Gun registration does not work.
Not in New Zealand. They repealed their gun registration law in the 1980s after police acknowledged its worthlessness.
Not in Australia. “It seems just to be an elaborate system of arithmetic with no tangible aim. Probably, and with the best of intentions, it may have been thought, that if it were known what firearms each individual in Victoria owned, some form of control may be exercised, and those who were guilty of criminal misuse could be readily identified. This is a fallacy, and has been proven not to be the case.” And this costs the Australian taxpayers over $200 million annually.
Not in Canada.
• More than 20,000 Canadian gun-owners have publicly refused to register their firearms. Many others are silently ignoring the law.
• The provincial governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have dumped both the administration and the enforcement of all federal gun-control laws right back into Ottawa’s lap, throwing the Canadian government into a paper civil war.
• And all at a cost more than 1,646% times the original projected cost (the original cost was estimated at 5% of all police expenditures in Canada). “The gun registry as it sits right now is causing law abiding citizens to register their guns but it does nothing to take one illegal gun off the street or to increase any type of penalty for anybody that violates any part of the legislation,” according to Al Koenig, President, Calgary Police Association. “We have an ongoing gun crisis, including firearms-related homicides lately in Toronto, and a law registering firearms has neither deterred these crimes nor helped us solve any of them”, according to Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino.
• The system is so bad that five Canadian provinces (B.C. joins Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia and Ontario) are refusing to prosecute firearm owners that fail to register.
Not in Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany began comprehensive gun registration in 1972. The government estimated between 17,000,000 and 20,000,000 guns were to be registered, and in fact only 3,200,000 surfaced, leaving some 80% unaccounted for.
Not in Boston, Cleveland or California. These cities and states require registration of “assault weapons” . The compliance rate in Boston and Cleveland is about 1%. In California, it is about 10%.
Fact: Criminals don’t register their guns.
Why?
Fact: The “time-to-crime” of a firearm ranges from one to 12 years, making it rare that a newly purchased firearm is used in a crime - Source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as reported by Time Magazine.
Fact: The national five-day waiting period under the Brady Bill had no impact on murder or robbery. In fact there was a slightly increased rate of rape and aggravated assault, indicating no effective suppression of certain violent crimes. Thus, for two crime categories, a possible effect was to delay law-abiding citizens from getting a gun for protection. The risks were greatest for crimes against women - Source: Dr. John Lott Jr., University of Chicago School of Law.
Fact: Comparing homicide rates in 18 states that had waiting periods and background checks before the Brady bill, with rates in the 32 states that had no comparable laws, the difference in change of homicide rates was “insignificant” - Source: Dr. Jens Ludwig , Dr. Philip J. Cook, Journal of the American Medical Association.
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