It was as you would predict. Love focused on how registering a farmer's shotgun isn't going to reduce crime, and Cuckier insisted that gun crime was being reduced by the registration system. They then attacked each other's assumptions. Of course, I'm biased to Love's position, but I don't think anyone really "won" the debate. However, Cuckier is a slippery fish. When she's attacked about one falacy in her argument, she immediately moves to another point, often equally falacious.

What this debate pointed out to me was that the anti-registration lobby needs to fund a massive ad campaign to convince urban Canada that registration is not and will not work. Martin and his government are not going to scrap registration as long as the majority of Canadians believe it can be fixed. We have to counter the "well, we've come this far" argument.