Watching the CBC Windsor news just now I am wondering what is your take, Southsiders, about the federal government's ending of the long gun registry and the destruction of registry records?

As you are rightfully proud of your now two year plus run of no murders do you think this will have any effect on that impressive tend short or long term?

This from CBC...

Since the introduction of stricter gun laws in 1991, there has been a 65 per cent reduction in homicides by long guns, Statistics Canada data shows. The reduction in homicides involving any type of firearm was 37 per cent.

Statistics Canada released a report on Oct. 26, 2011, on homicides in Canada in 2010. That year, there were 170 shooting homicides, about 32 per cent of all homicides. The total homicide rate fell to its lowest level since 1966 [[1.62 per 100,000 population).

From 1995, when the firearms registry became law, to 2010, there was a 41 per cent reduction in homicides by long guns.

During those years, the cost of establishing the registry was more than $1 billion. The Harper government campaigned on getting rid of the long-gun registry and now it says it also intends to destroy all the information about long-gun owners that has been collected.

Gun registry information is used by police across Canada more than 17,000 times per day.