PUBLICATION:  The Toronto Sun 

DATE:  2004.03.11

EDITION:  Final 

SECTION:  Sports 

PAGE:  114 

BYLINE:  JOHN KERR 

COLUMN:  Outdoors 

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A ‘TOO-DANGEROUS’ REGISTRY?

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Finally, a politician has come up with a sensible solution to criminal gun use, rather than the expensive smoke-and-mirrors licensing of hunters and registration of their long guns. The problem is, it is too practical and sure to cause shrill shrieks from socialists who think rehabilitating punks shooting up Toronto's streets and citizens with handguns is going to work.

For starters, Garry Breitkreuz, the official opposition Justice Critic for Gun Control, wants a criminal registry -- which he dubs a "Too-Dangerous-To-Have-Guns Registry" -- not the registry of duck and deer guns and their owners. Anyone on the new list would be under the watchful eye of the police. Along with this, Breitkreuz wants stiffer penalties, and no plea bargaining, for criminal use of guns.

There's more, but will Ottawa finally come to its senses and simply drop the billion-dollar long-gun registry that only targets hunters, legitimate gun collectors, and recreational shooters?

It is not working. According to Breitkreuz, a few hundred thousand Canadian gun owners still do not have a firearms licence, and 414,284 long-gun licence owners still have not registered their guns.

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BREITKREUZ'S PLAN TO KEEP GUNS OUT OF THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN'T HAVE THEM

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