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Silly Conservatives, Government is for SMART people

I was thinking about the gun registry.

Why do the police cheifs and the unions tend to support the gun registry?

I think we can all agree as a gross generalization that police officers would tend to be more conservative or even Conservative.
So why do they support the registry?

I heard that under the old system, FAC the Calgary Police department would spend about 3 million a year on checking out people for gun licenses. Under the new system those costs were uploaded to the registry and the local police no longer had to do that job.

The result of the gun registry was to give upwards of 30 million dollars a year back to the local police to be used for boots on the streets rather then being bureaucrats.

I really hope the Conservatives go ahead and go back to the old system. The local police departments will lose millions of dollars in funding, they will have to pay millions of dollars to reestablish the old system and they will have to buy all new software to integrate with the US system (which is where the real cost overuns occured under the registry).
Whithin 1 to 2 years we will be looking at Harpers's first Billion dollar boondoggle. On the backs of local police departments.
How is that for sweet revenge.

posted by Aristo @ 9:43 AM