Time to pull the plug on long-gun registry

There was palpable glee among gun-control activists as three big-ticket police groups stood shoulder to shoulder to defend the long-gun registry.

Wonderful! How could the gun nuts, sale hunters’ lobby and various other hayseeds (the ‘less enlightened in the Conservative caucus, recipe ’ sniffed one editorial) maintain their retrograde stance now?

After all — thus goes the calculus — cops are conservative de facto, viagra order because they carry guns themselves, wear crisp uniforms and protect us from criminals. If they support the registry, then its survival must be righteous. Right?

Wrong. There’s a simpler explanation: What’s good for the police brass and unions is not necessarily good for Canadians, or democracy. The two are not synonymous.-[source]