Derek 2.0

Exactly, gun control or gun rights, plays little into violent crime rates within any jurisdiction.........if that was not the case, Mexico or Brazil would have less gun crime than Canada, and New Zealand would have similar rates of gun crimes as the United States.......

Exactly, as I've said in every topic here on the subject since I began posting on this site, I've no issue with licenses or safe storage laws, but the Firearms Act itself was written by idiots, with knowledge fostered by movies, tv shows and gun magazines.......as made evident by the classification of various firearms based only on appearance, the name of the firearm, and in one case, due to one gun being used by Arnie in the Terminator...... If the AR-15 came with a wood stock, some versions, would likely never have been classified as restricted.......

Again your links don't support your claim.......nor explain how countries with less "gun control", like the United States, Canada and New Zealand have also seen significant declines in gun violence over the same period of time.

Your link doesn't support your claim, nor refute my source with actual numbers obtained from the Australian Government.....

But the registry didn't do that......as criminals don't register their guns.

You mean, like a registry.......it would only make a community safer if you were able to convince those most likely to use guns in the commission of a crime to contribute such data to the police......in essence, criminals telling police what types of and where they keep their illegal firearms.

No it didn't Likewise, gun deaths have decreased in the United States despite the AWB expiring, gun sales and issuing of CCW permits increasing

Nor have a valid licence to keep one in the garage.......likewise, if I left the car unlocked, with the keys on the coffee table, I would not face criminal charges.....or how many drivers are greeted by a ERT if their license expires and they still have a car in the garage?

No, I've read the entire legislation several times.........and personally find no cause for concern, and will continue will my regular usage of cellphones and the internet.

I have read it......and nowhere in it does it infringe upon your ability to use cellphones or the internet for lawful usage.

C-51 doesn't limit your use of cellphones, emails, or internet search engines........so what's the problem?

It's clearly not politically correct......likewise my contention that if you wanted to further reduce (the very few) instances of gun crime and suicides with legally obtained firearms in Canada, you'd remove the clauses within the Firearms Act that allow a First Nations person applying for his/hers gun licence to waive much of the criminal and mental health background checks, in addition to character/witness interviews by the RCMP, with a letter from his chief or band council stating he/she needs a gun to hunt.

Clearly it would need to be a measure of the potential outcomes........On average, 200 Canadians are murdered each year by firearms, contrasted with this example, in which a single person suffering from a mental illness killed 75% that number in minutes........ In Canada, the Canadian Firearms Center is updated daily with arrest records and the Hospital mental health database...these rights to privacy are waived when applying for a PAL/RPAL......For example, my Father required a doctor's note on reapplying for his RPAL because he was prescribed Zyban to quite smoking....as we later learned, such medication is also used to treat varying levels of depression....hence the CFC requiring assurance that he was not a threat to himself or others due to his taking of prescribed medications. It would seem, in light of this incident, such rights should also be waived for airline pilots or ships captains

Better yet, park your sting squads on the outskirts of Indian Reserves in Southern Ontario and Quebec......

Without a doubt.......but the point is clear, some forms of encroachment on privacy are fascist (C-51), well others (gun registry) are acceptable because we register other things.......it appears clear as mud.

Then provide one, fore your source doesn't support your claim, nor refute my source with numbers provided by the actual Government.

Right, so the FMGCs will compute speed, lateral path and vertical plan after a manual NAV entry into the MCDU , versus the FCU, which requires manual inputs for each speed, vertical plan and lateral path to "fly the aircraft"... As to trim, yaw, turn coordination etc, wouldn't that be under the continual control of the flight augmentation computer? Which in itself would answer Argus's question as to why the pilot didn't just put the aircraft into a deep dive.

No, I did read your link and it doesn't support your claim, nor refute the actual Australian gun crime statistics Numbers provided by the Australian Government........

Your link, unlike mine, didn't prove what you suggested...............despite gun control laws, gun violence in Australia has increased And in the United States, despite the Assault Weapons Ban ending, firearms sales skyrocketing, and CCW permits increasing, gun homicides in the United States, over the last twenty years, has decreased by 49%......

I already told you several times......... Good example: Any yet, gun crimes in the United States have also been decreasing...........

Yes, it does........the registry is every bit as political, for both sides, pro or anti gun, as the Government reading the emails of eco-terrorists.......even during its short life, the registry was used to confiscate legally purchased firearms from lawful Canadians. Likewise, the usage of gun registries by Governments in the United Kingdom and Australia to confiscate millions of firearms from lawful gun owners due to political action...On the more extreme end, past gun registries were used by despots (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao etc) to attempt to disarm their entire populace......... But, the long gun registry is now gone, and based on current public party policies, the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP have no intentions of bringing it back.........fore outside the direct political costs (Liberal MP Wayne Easter has stated the previous LGR cost the Liberals upwards of 60 seats), even the most thick headed politician understands that a new registry would have far lower levels of compliance then the last one.....making it even more useless, for no direct benefit.

No, not at all........as unlike cars, there are professional lobbies and elements with mainstream political parties that want to ban guns.....a registry is a personal index for such groups.......for most actual gun owners, registering firearms is as much a political hang-up as your protesters hugging trees have with C-51.........

I already told you above.......Whats the problem with C-51? For many, the concern is privacy.

Do you have a source? I've yet to hear the RCMP/CBSA/CSIS state they don't need "more powers".

For many, the same reason some people fear C-51 and claim it an invasion of privacy.........of course, based on historic precedent, this view of registries has some credibility.