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   The federal government of Canada has been talking about "buying back"   
   guns that it has made illegal for several years now but has had a lot of   
   trouble figuring out how to do it. Initially, the wanted the police to   
   run the program but the cops wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then   
   they thought they'd have the Post Office collect the guns but the postal   
   workers didn't want anything to do with it. Eventually they got a pilot   
   program together and decided to try it in the Cape Breton area of Nova   
   Scotia. By the time the pilot program was over, they had collected a   
   grand total of 25 guns in an area thought to have in the neighbourhood   
   of 2000 weapons that would qualify. 12 of the guns came from a widow who   
   didn't want her late husband's guns cluttering up the house any more. At   
   least some of the guns collected weren't even on the list of those that   
   had been prohibited. By any reasonable standard, this pilot program   
   should be reckoned a complete failure. So what is our government going   
   to do?   
      
   You probably won't be surprised to learn that they are rolling out the   
   same program nationally! That's right: they're spending over $700   
   million (Canadian) to try to get back guns. By the way most of that   
   money will be spent on the administration costs: there is considerable   
   doubt that there will be any money left to pay for the guns they are   
   hoping to buy.   
      
   Meanwhile, gun violence in this country continues to climb to   
   unprecedented levels. Strangely enough, the criminals don't seem to take   
   the gun laws very seriously.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xrf9LVIWMk [6 minutes]   
      
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