CBC gets it right for once

I heard this diatribe by the CBC's Rex Murphy the other night and was slack jawed at, not just the insight, but also the source (CBC). A more poignant and crystal clear assessment of the Feds failed duck gun registry has never been penned....and to be blared out over Trudeaupia's favorite propaganda net indicates to me the Duck Gun registry is now nothing more than another Liberal albatross....totally useless in operation and kept on life support purely for face saving value. When you see the majority of liberal MSM calling for its ( the registry) demise, you realize that this is a fraud so big that even the liberal press wants to distance themselves from it.... supporting it at this point in time ( in the realities of the cost frauds and gun violence in TO which the registry is totally useless to prevent) will result in a potentially fatal blow to the credibility of the MSM.......only the most corrupt of party insiders directly responsible for the fraud, that the registry has been revealed to be, are the ones defending it....that and their fervent special interest puppets who similarly stand to be implicated in the fraud when it is finally exposed by the Auditor General this next session.

I usually don't post another author's article in its entirety, but Rex Murphy's take on this deserves to be read and taken to heart by all Canadians who want to end the type of waste, corruption and errant bureaucratic idiocy to which the registry had become a metaphor:

Rex Murphy's "Point of View" -
(from the transcript CBC e-mailed me, it will be on the CBC site next week)

--- "Useless" is not a difficult word, but it's worthwhile sometimes to check a dictionary even for the most common ones. For example, the Encarta Dictionary -- that's the online newbie of lexicography --defines "useless" as "having no beneficial use, incapable of functioning usefully." Merriam Webster is terse. It just says, "ineffectual." The American Heritage says of useless, "incapable of functioning or assisting." That's a good one. The shorter Oxford is economical and brutal. It says useless means "having no purpose."

I was peering into all of these semantic windows just for the purpose of making sure that when I said the federal gun registry -- cost close to two billion -- was useless, that I was on the right track. I think we are. There have been 69 murders in Toronto over this year. Many worthy, innocent people have tasted the deepest grief. The killings have profoundly disturbed, agitated, and alarmed the communities where they have occurred. The most recent murder was of an 18-year-old boy outside a church attending the funeral of a 17-year-old boy who was himself murdered the week before.

This brazen blasphemous horror has appalled everyone. It has shaken Toronto to the core. In none of these killings has the gun registry been of the slightest assistance. It has been ineffectual, of no beneficial use, incapable of assistance. This useless pretence of a policy has answered no valuable purpose. I bring this up in this particularly bleak context not primarily to take a smack at the gun registry, though it deserves every smack it gets, but to point out this further consideration: That cosmetic legislation, legislation designed to make people feel good, has a price beyond the two-billion-dollar sign. Such legislation always amounts to a pretence and an evasion.

It was always known that if there was a problem with inner-city crime, gangs, and guns, the response had to be one that dealt with inner cities and with the gangs and their guns. And that meant confronting some of the most delicate issues, mixing race, poverty, police relations with black communities, drugs, and sheer wilful thuggery on the part of some- -- issues that are volatile, not susceptible to a quick fix, and barricaded by a whole set of topics most politicians would prefer not to have to deal with.

Throwing up a national gun registry as an answer, even a partial one, to these problems, was a fake response, allowed some civic leaders and interest groups to pose for the cameras, and give a vague impression that the real problems in all their complexity were being addressed. They weren't. Gun murders in Toronto, and particularly within some areas of Toronto's black community, are not, and never were, primarily a licensing and registration dilemma. Nor are they, by the by, a cross-border smuggling problem or a gun manufacturers' problem. Gun murder in this city is a Toronto problem, it is a gang problem, and it is a problem of relations between the police and portions of the black community. The wretched gun registry has been absolutely useless in assisting police in finding the villains who have been killing people.

Well, the homicide rate in Toronto this year is partially the price being paid for this charade, and a most grievous illustration of the cost that evasion, purchased by feel-good legislation, eventually extracts a price inestimably higher than the two billion dollars that useless registry has cost so far.

For The National, I'm Rex Murphy

Amen Rex...and my deepest sympathies to those relatives of the murdered who were fooled into thinking a 2 billion dollar a duck gun registry would make them safe from urban-centric crime....we now see the only people pushing that "feel good" fraud were people who have the financial/political means to escape the inner city criminal violence they evangelise silly solutions for....It's impossible to see the causation of inner city crime from the posh cocktail circuits of Rosedale and Mont royal. Murphy's revelations are all the more stinging in light of the fact PMPM is now holding yet another feel-good conference on the hollow symbolism of "GUN CRIME" when it is "Ethnic Gangs" that are at issue...as if they will become model citizens the minit the impossible happens...which is to depricve them of weapons......the criminal violence will continue to rage as long as vacant politicos keep selling sybolism over substance.