Fudd..Are you by chance a NDP or Liberal??
Holy cow!! Let's send everyone who does a crime, that can use drugs as an excuse, to rehab! What a great plan!! WAIT.. Where are all these rehabs gonna come from?? If given the choice of hard times, or a lesser stay ina rehab until you can say "I didn't mean to do it." Oh that will fix all of the problems for sure...
Gun registry!!!! What a joke that was and is!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you going to sit there with a straight face, and tell me that only registered guns are going to be used by criminals against the honest people of Canada?? That law, only made more honest people dishnest, by causing them to NOT register their guns. Or "lose" them. Mandatory reistration is for one purpose.. To count the honest gun owners out there. How many more billions do we need to spend on this dead horse??
Personally, our justice system is a bit of a joke. The penalties do not act a s a deterrent to the crimes. They don't make the criminals sit back and think, while they are behind bars - YES BARS not solid wood doors in a country club environement - about what they did, and if they will repeat. The Youth Justice Act is a joke. The penalties are not harsh enough. The laws are written to protect the guilty. The lawyers, and alot the criminals, know the laws better than anyone, and how to find a loophole.. They can "beat the system" faster and easier everyday.. There is a town in Arizona, wher eit is the law for everyone to own a gun. The crime is one of the lowest in the land, as even the criminals are smart enough to know that every door they break into has an armed occupant behind it. Would they get shot if they broke in? Who knows? But definately not a chance most are willing to take.
In my opinion, and it is only my two cents, the penalties should be revisted. So that the criminals can see that there are consquences for their actions. Murders....No life in jail..It costs too much...Uses up too many resources...IF you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt - Pickton, Manson, Bundy (those types) - you get one year in jail. In that time you can do your appeal, think, rot, or get sodomized nightly.. Your choice. Day 366...Time to pay...You are taken from this planet, to meet your maker. Done. How many murders and voilent offenders would that alone deter, knowing that when you get caught, your time is limited?
To save the question...I will NEVER vote Liebral or NDP and YES I live in Alberta. Redneck and proud!!!!!!!