How ironic the DU members, who tend to HATE gun toters, are now defending the gun toting mom!

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42. I fail to see how your ideas would change anything ...

Firearm registration in Canada has proved to be a failure. If it doesn't work in Canada, why would we want to try it in the United States? The only reason I can see is to harass honest gun owners.

Long Gun Registry scrapped: Bill C-19 becomes law
4/13/2012

Selkirk, Manitoba-James Bezan, Member of Parliament for Selkirk-Interlake, made the following statement after the Senate passed Bill C-19, Ending the Long Gun Registry Act and was proclaimed into law:

“I am proud to say that after 17 years of the discriminatory and unfair long-gun registry has finally come to an end. Our Conservative government has always stood with law-abiding Canadians and never believed in making honest farmers, hunters and rural Canadians into criminals. I’d like to extend my gratitude to the Senate for passing this legislation."

"Our government will continue to uphold our commitment to effective gun control measures that keep firearms out of the hands of criminals and off our streets. We have successfully introduced legislation that fights gang crime, drug crime, violent and repeat offenders. Our reforms are concrete steps to tackle real crime and real criminals.”

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"The Government will begin implementation of the legislation. Long-gun owners will no longer be required to register their firearms, and the process of destroying the data in the registry related to non-restricted firearms will begin as soon as feasible."
http://www.jamesbezan.com/news.asp?newsID=2094

You other idea of limiting magazine size also would accomplish little as with practice an individual can swap out a magazine in less than 2 seconds. In fact, high capacity magazines often cause firearms to jam where smaller magazines feed far more reliably.

While it is true that the NRA sponsors many many gun laws that those who oppose firearm ownership disagree with, it should be pointed out that if the majority of citizens disliked the laws they could elect representatives who would repeal them. Name just one state that has repealed "shall issue" concealed carry, castle doctrine, stand your ground or take your gun to work laws after they were passed.