I’m letting Rex Murphy have the last word on this blog about the One Billion dollar gun registry, because in his Globe and Mail column he says things like:

We must be very, very grateful that those who own guns have better aim than those who want to control guns. The combined brainpower and foresight of Homer Simpson and Mr. Magoo couldn’t have composed the billion-dollar nullity that is still ludicrously referred to as our national gun registry.
It is incomplete, out of control, and is a typhoon of overspending. Furthermore, its accounting has been a prodigy of slyness and concealment.

The man isn’t hiding his opinion about “this typhoon of overspending”.

If the money available to build a gun registry were available to our health-care system, Canada would now have more hospitals than convenience stores, every citizen would be assigned at birth two personal physicians (a specialist and a GP), and we would have our own medical space program consisting of a girdle of MRI clinics circling the planet.
Were it available under the same invulnerable inexhaustibility to our armed services, St. John’s would now be servicing its own fleet of aircraft carriers, Toronto would have its own army under General Lastman (just for snowy mornings), and our navy would summon up, in its magnitude and multitude, memories of the British fleet in the high noon of empire.

I like the shots at the yuppies.

It is the yuppie disdain for pastimes yuppies do not know and which do not involve them, pastimes toward which they are licentiously contemptuous and implacably determined to obliterate.