Rex Murphy
The Gun Registry: A billion dollar bag of perfect uselessness
By Rex Murphy
CBC - The National
Commentary
January 7, 2004
Rex Murphy has a wonderful insight into a variety of issues, whether moderating Cross Country Check-up on CBC Radio on Sundays or writing an opinion piece in the Globe & Mail or the National Post.
In this commentary he notes:
"Whether it's a rash of gun killings or just a single gun murder, our platinum priced gun registry with its billion-dollar cost overrun is not just ordinarily useless in cases of this kind, it is perfectly useless. It is useless without qualification. It does nothing. This may surprise a few anti-gun philosophers, but the knowledge that a farmer has a 12-gauge in Saskatchewan or a hunter has a .30-30 in Newfoundland is infinitely irrelevant."
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