It's not being drop because the law was unconscionable but because the management of the registry was. It made the FBI computer upgrade disaster look well done.

uh-huh, the rest of their laws being efficient?

Why can we use the word "amnesty" in reference to gun owners but not illegal aliens?

That gun registry turned into a sink hole for Canadian dollars.

Mr. Judd;

The gun registry was in a league of its own. It was originally projected to cost $2,000,000 CDN but once it passed $2,000,000,000 CDN people got upset. And best of all, after spending 1000 times the original budget, it still didn't work! Even for the Chretien government, it was a boondoggle almost beyond the imagination. PJ was bragging about how Massachusetts took the rest of us chumps for the Big Dig, but that's T-ball compared to the Canadian Gun Registry. It's something the UN could take lessons from. That's why it's being dropped.

And now that the Canadian dollar is threatening to be worth as much as the one to the south, it makes those sinkholes even more expensive.

sharon:

Because the whackos like guns but not brown folk.

AOG:

Have you noticed anyone stopping the Big Dig?

Mr. Judd;

Senator John McCain, for one.

But the Big Dig is not even remotely close in terms of cost overruns. When it costs $1T, then it will be roughly the same. I am willing to bet a big chunk of money that it will be finished or canceled long before that point is reached.

Did he stop it?

It hasn't overrun as badly as the registry yet, so the answer is irrelevant.

AOG:

You brought up the irrelevant point.

Ah, I forgot about your problem with fixation with irrelevant details contained in analogies. Absent that, though, I see my point stands.

So the Big Dig was dropped?

We agreed that was irrelevant.

...and the point fell.

Good to see you admit a point of yours fell (since the Big Dig, your only point, was irrelevant). There's hope for you yet.

Except that you raised the the Big Dig, which is in exactly the same league. My point obtains, cost never kills a government project. Conscience does.

It is not in the same league, you're simply making up facts. I have stated why, to which you have responded with unsupported assertions.

By the way, weren't you the one claiming that a secure border wouldn't work because the citizenry wouldn't pay for it? Why would that be, if costs never killed a government project?

No, the fact is the gun amnesty is being offered because the registry appalls the new government's base, just as immigrants are being offered amnesty because treating 12 million fellow Americans as criminals appalls us.

The Big Dig, a pet project of a few local pols has overrun intial estimates by something like $7 billion dollars. The national gun registry in Canada hasn't cost anything by comparison.

The East Germans couldn't secure their border but you think we'd turn our country into East Germany in a futile attempt to close ours? It would shock the conscience too much.

The gun registry was wildly popular in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, where people who have never seen guns sip moccachinos and order the lives of lesser people who have. That's where the Liberal vote is concentrated. It was despised in rural areas. Orrin is right, the cost overruns proved a boon in the end.

I know of no other issue that divides so sharply along urban/rural lines than this. Its the Canadian version of fox-hunting.

We should all benefit from knowing just how much the gun issue had to do with the Conservative victory in Canada.

We know that gun rights turned everything around the the United States when reaction to Brady and the AWB gave us the Contract with America.