Erase, displace, destroy the registry
The list of long gun owners is gone. The government has been planning this advance in record keeping for years, but the small issue of an opposition that was numerically superior interfered. Times have changed. In celebration, the government is coming through on a promise. First and last. Not to worry, though. The current government is going to clean up the cupboard, so to speak. The database that cost millions will be erased, shredded, stapled, folded, whatever it takes to assure that no trace remains. After all, “any job worth doing is worth doing well”.
I don’t get it.
Did you know that no jobs will be lost through the abolition of the registry? Even though there will be no need to gather, maintain or disseminate the data, those civil servants are safe. Pardon my ignorance, but wasn’t the issue that the registry cost too much money? If there is no difference in having vs not having, then…
It’s ideological. I don’t own a gun, so I can’t understand. Perhaps if I didn’t find parallels with other things (like automobiles and boats), I would be a better citizen in this new and curious world.
There. I’ve paused to catch my breath. Let’s carry on with something that makes sense. Did you know that my collection of pennies is growing, because I can’t face a trip to the bank to try and trade them in? The last time I went to the bank with cash, they insisted in taking my name and address. Kind of like a registry of some sort.
