I tried. I just couldn’t go a day without posting on the campaign to save Canada’s expensive and ineffective Long Gun Registry. Did I say ineffective? I meant to say ineffective. Not that the Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, the Canadian Association of Adolescent Health, the Ontario Public Health Association and the Quebec Public Health Association agree with me. The groups smoked, I mean signed a joint letter which “underscores the risks firearms present to the health and safety of Canadians and the need for rigorous controls.” Can’t wait to read it? Download their anti-anti-Long Gun Registry kvetch here [paraphrasing]. But you don’t read blogs/websites to do all the heavy lifting. A point which TTAG and the above groups realize. Hence the bullet points after the jump. But here’s the money shot: “As health professionals, we know the importance of investing in prevention, whether in road safety or prevention of infectious diseases. We cannot easily measure prevention, but we can certainly measure the effects of ignoring it.” Yeah, that makes sense.
