>Hi Rod.
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>>The law came in without much grumbling, in fact, I think Charlton Heston made more noise about it than anybody in Canada.
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>Here in the West, there was lots of grumbling (and there are on-going legal challenges), mostly from rural folks. I don't happen to agree with them (let me see, opponents don't have a problem with registering their cars or even their dogs, but they do with registering a gun?), but there is definitely more opposition here.
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>Doug

Hi Doug,

I wasn't aware of the opposition out West. Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the shootings at the Polytechnique School here, where 14 young women were killed, and the new gun control measures are in large part the result of the work of survivors and relatives of the victims of that tragedy. The local paper here ran a summary of the issues, and although the article doesn't mention actual numbers, it does suggest a strong reduction in gun-related crime and firearm homicide since measures began being put into place.
I'd say registration is a pretty small price to pay for that kind of benefit.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/001206/4998898.html

Rod