Create registry of gun criminals

This is from Canada, so temper your expectations.

It's an editorial response to a gun grabber's assertation that:

It's important that there are controls over civilian possession of guns if you want to stop illegal possession.

The part that's supposed to be the main point of the response:

Rather than blaming an intimate object for societies woes, let's go after the criminals internationally, create a registry of criminals whom we know misuse firearms and give the money saved to the only entity to combat crime worldwide - the police.

I think the guy's heart is in the right place, but his eyes just aren't totally open. First of all, instead of creating a registry of people who misuse guns, why don't you keep them in jail (assuming that the word "misuse" means "commit crimes with")? As I've said before, if a person can't be trusted topossess a gun, they can't be trusted to do anything without being supervised (ergo they belong inprisonn).

Secondly, this poor fella still thinks that the police are the only ones professional enough to combat crime. Go ahead and call 911 (or whatever you guys have up there) in the middle of the night when someone's in your house and wait for the professionals to rescue you. As for me and my house, we will "combat crime" as needed.

PS - does that make me a "vigilante"?

File under: International issues, Gun Laws