Rhetoric No Substitute For Facts

Chris Selley: Kill the long gun registry
Posted: April 09, 2009, 8:32 PM by Chris Selley
Here’s a very illuminating paragraph from the Toronto Star’s editorial board this week:
It's hard to make the argument for the gun registry any better than Steven Chabot, president of the association of chiefs of police, who wrote in a letter to Harper last month: "All guns are potentially dangerous, all gun owners need to be licensed, all guns need to be registered, and gun owners need to be accountable for their firearms."
It’s hard to make the argument for the gun registry any better, in other words, than by imperiously claiming it’s absolutely essential without citing any supporting evidence at all. Sadly, that’s pretty much the state of play at One Yonge, on this and several other issues.
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