Steve Janke: Well, the truth is more complicated, as it always is.
Gun registry successfully kept guns out of the United States
"The people for and against the long-gun registry have been tossing allegations back and forth about how effective the registry has been in fighting crime. Often this takes the form of statistics. For: An average of 5,000 queries a day are made by law enforcement agencies. Against: Virtually all the queries are automatically generated by local police computers whenever any kind of information is accessed, including outstanding parking fines.
The problem is that it is hard to really understand how useful the registry is when you look at broad collections of numbers.
So I decided to focus on one particular event, chosen at random, described by the Coalition for Gun Control:..."
(article linked in RESOURCE LIBRARY -Media, and above)
"The people for and against the long-gun registry have been tossing allegations back and forth about how effective the registry has been in fighting crime. Often this takes the form of statistics. For: An average of 5,000 queries a day are made by law enforcement agencies. Against: Virtually all the queries are automatically generated by local police computers whenever any kind of information is accessed, including outstanding parking fines.
The problem is that it is hard to really understand how useful the registry is when you look at broad collections of numbers.
So I decided to focus on one particular event, chosen at random, described by the Coalition for Gun Control:..."
(article linked in RESOURCE LIBRARY -Media, and above)
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