Does gun control lead to political corruption?
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Captain Ed says maybe so, at least in Canada, and he has a convincing argument. The Liberal government, recently ousted, had imposed a national registry of firearms upon the country. The RCMP (Canada's national law enforcement body) were tasked with creating and maintaining that registry, but they were not given sufficient funding for the task. Instead, other law enforcement operations had to be shortchanged in order to operate the registry. This had the obvious consequence of ensuring that the registry itself was very poorly run, and the less obvious consequence of diverting the RCMP from other enforcement activities -- such as investigating political corruption. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Canadian government fell in large part due to long-standing internal corruption, particularly the AdScam scandal. It's useful to remember that everything has unintended consequences, even when those consequences are only visible as opportunity costs. When you keep law enforcement busy doing paperwork to keep track of honest citizens who own guns, they aren't doing the legwork necessary to track down criminals who abuse them. For example, there are a lot of people at the BATFE whose time would be better spent issuing parking tickets. |
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