Why the long-gun registry doesn’t work — and never did [Canada]

[gcomeau]

4. Since you chose to bold this...

"It is difficult to argue that Canadian gun laws are effective when homicide rates have dropped faster in the United States than in Canada since 1991."

I can only assume you thought it made some kind of valid point. It does not, for the simple reason that the current rates in Canada are still THREE TIMES LOWER than in the US.

Only looking at the rate of change while disregarding the starting point is a nice little trick to pull. Kind of like looking at two houses, one of which is an energy inefficient power wasting boondoggle and another which is a model of energy efficiency... then turning the lights off in the energy wasting house, looking at the drop in power consumed, and saying that since there was no corresponding drop in power in the energy consumed by the energy efficient house obviously it isn't effective at saving energy, because look! The power usage dropped faster in the wasteful house!

Never mind what it dropped from and to... yeah that''s not important...