Voici un article qui reflete mes sentiments envers le registre.
http://www.markdalestandard.com/Article ... ?e=3343192Gun registry insult to rural CanadiansBy JIM MERRIAM
Posted 1 day ago
I t seems fitting that the federal government is about to bury the long gun registry about the same time that a lot of Canadians -- law abiding Canadians -- are getting ready to use those same guns in the annual fall hunt.
This hunt, among others, is the main reason that long guns exist in this country.
Criminals tend to favour easier-to-conceal handguns, which have been strictly controlled in Canada since the 1930s.
Certainly long guns have been used in the commission of crimes, but they tend to be less popular among the criminal element.
Figures from Statistics Canada indicate that in 2006 there were 605 homicides. Handguns accounted for 108, or 57%, of the 190 victims killed by a firearm.
Of the remaining 82 victims, 36 were killed by a rifle or shotgun, 24 by a sawed-off rifle or shotgun (illegal weapons in Canada) and 22 by another or unknown type of firearm.
Getting back to the legitimate use of long guns -- the big-game hunt -- it's difficult to describe from an Ontario-wide perspective, since seasons open and close around the province about as fast as office doors at quitting time.
Moose season has come and gone in many parts of the north, with most of the moose continuing to live the life of leisure to which they had become accustomed before the hunt.
At least, that's the case if anecdotal reports from bush country are to be believed.
Deer season is about to open in southern Ontario, with various seasons for different parts of the region.
Detailed information about seasons by region and hunting regulations can be found at
http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca.
The length of the hunt also varies, with the type of weapon being used by the hunter. Black powder seasons normally are open longer to users of those firearms, based on old-style weapons.
Bow hunters, too, have the advantage of a longer season.
But back to the long guns, this is the time of year they are pulled from their cases, oiled up and sighted in for the annual hunting of deer.
It was just one year ago that long gun owners were heading out to bush country disappointed that the House of Commons had just defeated a minority Conservative attempt to scrap the registry.
With minority having changed to majority and the registry on its last legs, the mood around hunting camps will be quite different this year.
The distaste for the registry among a lot of rural Canadians was never understood by registry advocates.
It was full of irritants, but it was not hated because it cost a few bucks to register weapons. Nor was it hated because of the time it took to do the paperwork or the renewals.
It was hated for the simple reason that rural Canadians took it as an insult.
The registry meant that their government did not trust them.Even though they had always been law-abiding citizens, they were being treated no better than the most dangerous gangsters on the streets of Toronto or Edmonton or Montreal.In fact, if you looked up "salt of the earth" in a dictionary you might find pictures of these people, who now were seeing themselves being made out to be potential criminals.
Over many years these folks, particularly those in the rural parts of the country, had earned the respect of their government.
And they were deeply disturbed that they did not get it.