{"id":11382,"date":"2011-09-29T08:10:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2011-09-29T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:45:55","slug":"quebec-may-create-its-own-gun-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/29\/quebec-may-create-its-own-gun-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec may create its own gun registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2011\/09\/29\/matt-gurney-ontario-wouldnt-join-quebec-in-creating-its-own-gun-registry\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gurney<\/a> examines the Quebec government&#8217;s declared intention to create a provincial gun registry:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In July, Quebec\u2019s Public Safety Minister Robert Dutil told reporters that his government was considering a \u201cPlan B\u201d in the (highly probable) event that the federal Tories scrapped the long-gun registry &mdash; the creation of a provincial registry. Quebec is particularly sensitive to crimes committed by firearm, and has been more wedded than most provinces to the faulty notion that registration provides public-safety benefits. The Supreme Court has already ruled that firearms registration is a federal responsibility due to the public safety nature of gun control, but Quebec could theoretically try to establish a registry for firearms that treats them as simple property, no different than dogs, cats or boats. It would be a political stunt only \u2026 but then again, that\u2019s all the registry has been since the beginning: A costly act of political theatre in which politicians impose burdensome red tape  on lawful firearms owners and proclaim society somehow safer as a result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gurney examines the Quebec government&#8217;s declared intention to create a provincial gun registry: In July, Quebec\u2019s Public Safety Minister Robert Dutil told reporters that his government was considering a \u201cPlan B\u201d in the (highly probable) event that the federal Tories scrapped the long-gun registry &mdash; the creation of a provincial registry. Quebec is particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84],"tags":[49,113,661,201],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","tag-guns","tag-quebec","tag-regulation","tag-securitytheatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2XA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11383,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/11383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}