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Guns kill people but gun control saves lives

[caption id="attachment_2055" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] Earlier this week, the Canadian Supreme Court decided in a 5–4 decision that the Federal government is entitled to destroy all of Quebec’s data from the long-gun registry (LGR), which was scrapped a while ago. While registry data from other provinces had been destroyed in November 2012, a protracted legal battle from Quebec challenged the Federal government’s decision to scrap Quebec’s data, since the province plans to proceed with a registry of their own. When it comes to public safety, this is yet another step in the wrong direction for the…

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