C Broad Arrow
Member
In Canada we spent $2 billion dollars to implement a long gun registry. The specifications of the system would be identical to what Feinstein would require for her bill to be implemented.
The costs in Canada for each gun to be registered was estimated to be about $85. This was based on a high compliance rate, which was never obtained. The actual cost per gun when the project was terminated was closer to $500 per gun.
Now take that and multiply by the number of guns that Feinstein wants to register and you will see that the cost is prohibitive.
So here is my quick estimate of the cost.
300 million guns @$500 and a 50% compliance rate. Rough estimate of the cost... $75 Billion if I have done the math right. Your milage may differ. I encourage you to play with the numbers.
From a cost benefit analysis their are better ways to spend taxpayer dollars to improve public safety.
Now consider having spent this money and another 9/11 occurs(God forbid). Will anyone consider money spent of the registry a good investment? Will Feinstein still crow about its necessity as body bags appear on the evening news?
The biggest human behaviour issue is that the guns they want will simply "disappear". They will be stored in barns, attics, buried, etc. like many of the BARs AKs. MP-38s etc. that came back as war trophies.
In Canada the Trudeau government of the 1970's estimated there were 20 million plus firearms in Canada. Since firearms are a durable good and last for centuries many of us were surprised when the Chretian government in 1994 claimed that there were only 7 million.
The reason for the difference is that governemnt wanted to show a high compliance rate quickly into the process of registration. A smaller base makes for a higher percentage of compliance.
They knew that a segment of the population of gun owners would register ASAP as most Canadians are law abiding and compliant.
But in the end the project was abandoned. This was the third time in Canada that an attempt had been made to register long guns. The Ministry of Public Safety, the Chiefs of Police Association and every single interest group were never able to show any empirical evidence that the $2billion we flushed down the drain resulted in any measure of improved public safety. In fact we continued to have mass shootings with two having occured this past year in Toronto prior to the end of the registry.
So with tight government budgets, debt ceilings, defecits, failing infrastructure, etc etc. you need to ask your elected officials regardless of the Second Amendment and the unconstitutional aspects of gun control:
"Can we afford a social engineering project that will cost billions, leave us poorer, sacrifice other more important public works, and result in no improved level of public safety? Do you want that to occur on your watch"?
His or her answer will be most revealing.
The costs in Canada for each gun to be registered was estimated to be about $85. This was based on a high compliance rate, which was never obtained. The actual cost per gun when the project was terminated was closer to $500 per gun.
Now take that and multiply by the number of guns that Feinstein wants to register and you will see that the cost is prohibitive.
So here is my quick estimate of the cost.
300 million guns @$500 and a 50% compliance rate. Rough estimate of the cost... $75 Billion if I have done the math right. Your milage may differ. I encourage you to play with the numbers.
From a cost benefit analysis their are better ways to spend taxpayer dollars to improve public safety.
Now consider having spent this money and another 9/11 occurs(God forbid). Will anyone consider money spent of the registry a good investment? Will Feinstein still crow about its necessity as body bags appear on the evening news?
The biggest human behaviour issue is that the guns they want will simply "disappear". They will be stored in barns, attics, buried, etc. like many of the BARs AKs. MP-38s etc. that came back as war trophies.
In Canada the Trudeau government of the 1970's estimated there were 20 million plus firearms in Canada. Since firearms are a durable good and last for centuries many of us were surprised when the Chretian government in 1994 claimed that there were only 7 million.
The reason for the difference is that governemnt wanted to show a high compliance rate quickly into the process of registration. A smaller base makes for a higher percentage of compliance.
They knew that a segment of the population of gun owners would register ASAP as most Canadians are law abiding and compliant.
But in the end the project was abandoned. This was the third time in Canada that an attempt had been made to register long guns. The Ministry of Public Safety, the Chiefs of Police Association and every single interest group were never able to show any empirical evidence that the $2billion we flushed down the drain resulted in any measure of improved public safety. In fact we continued to have mass shootings with two having occured this past year in Toronto prior to the end of the registry.
So with tight government budgets, debt ceilings, defecits, failing infrastructure, etc etc. you need to ask your elected officials regardless of the Second Amendment and the unconstitutional aspects of gun control:
"Can we afford a social engineering project that will cost billions, leave us poorer, sacrifice other more important public works, and result in no improved level of public safety? Do you want that to occur on your watch"?
His or her answer will be most revealing.
