Friday, August 12, 2011

If only we had a gun registry

that police could consult all this could have been avoided:

A gun collector who was arrested outside his east-end apartment during a midnight raid has launched a $6.5-million lawsuit against the Toronto police, his former landlords and a tipster.
Peter Sedge, 59, said he was removed from his Beaches home at gunpoint wearing only his underwear during the May, 2008, seizure of about 120 legally collected firearms.

Pssst......for those of you that may not know we do have a gun registry in Canada. Police forces insist they consult it thousands of  times a day. Astonishingly so far it has cost (naturally) Billions instead of the mere 2 or so  Million it was supposed to cost.

2 comments:

WolfSong said...

Well, I guess the Toronto police were just too damn lazy to check the registry. If they had, they would have seen he owned them guns legally.

So really, we're paying for this registry for no reason. *sigh* I could have told these stupid assed politicians that. But then, they don't want to hear from me, a lowly gun owner, who must be a criminal for doing their paper work dance.

Jerkwads. Hope that guy gets his $6.5 mil.

The Grey Lady said...

Hello WolfSong,

I kinda hope he gets his money too, but I would rather see someones a$$ in a sling for such gross incompetence, not that that will ever happen. Don't they keep justifying the registry by saying it gets consulted about 8000 times a day? I think maybe it should have been consulted 8001 times on that day. Jerkwads is right.