Firearm Licencing and Registration Plus Bill C-19

Being me, Tom E Gunn, I tend to encounter a lot of negative flak towards my beliefs about firearms. Most people disagree with me and preach of bad firearms that are evil and weapons of death and destruction.  Some people ask me why I have my beliefs.  Some of those 'some' are comfortable enough with the concept of personal knowledge to agree or constructively argue with me. But very few agree completely with my views on Licencing and Registration of firearms.  And those very few are 99.9% of the time firearm owners themselves. 


What are my views you ask? 


Education in proper handling, safe use and storage of a firearm and then licencing those that are competent enough to follow said directions (and understand why) is an extremely good measure.  We would not want to be selling a car to someone with epilepsy or narcolepsy would we?


Registering and keeping a database of firearms, their owners, and locations is extremely dangerous -- therefore I am eagerly awaiting the senate to pass Bill C-19.  This database is so dangerous that is it considered Protected C information under the federal privacy protection laws of Canada. I could give you dozens upon dozens of reasons for why this "extremely sensitive information if compromised, could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave injury..." but I will not be the one to educate you. Not today.  


Instead, I leave you with a quote, a comic and finally a video that serves as a bit of a history lesson.

“If all the AK47s in Libya were licensed and registered, Muammar Gaddafi would still be alive today.”  (Source)

Unknown Artist (Please Comment if you know who wrote this)  |  (Source)

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And if you still find yourself sitting there thinking, "Damn, this Tom E Gunn character is PARANOID!" I would present to you an antithesis to your arguable opinion, that you are suffering from a normality bias.

For further reading on the topic I strongly suggest heading over to http://tyrantman.wordpress.com/ or your local university library and asking where the history section is...