Would you register your pressure cooker?

Several years ago when drive-by shootings and murders were becoming prevalent, our government brought in the gun registry. The idea was to prevent gun crime by registering the guns.

In the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, the explosives were found to have been in pressure cookers. In the alleged planned attack in Victoria on Canada Day, pressure cooker bombs were the planned weapon.

 

RCMP evidence photo of pressure cookers
prepared for an attack at the British Columbia
legislature on Canada Day 2013

So the question presents itself: If the government fought gun crime by registering the guns, will they try to thwart the latest bombing crime by registering pressure cookers?

The latter scenario is seen as humorous, most people would laugh at the thought. But the former situation actually happened. Does it not give one pause to wonder at the logic?

It does not eliminate the crime to control the method of the crime. If murder is the purpose, the murderer will use any weapon available to commit the killing. If that weapon is a gun, the chances are excellent that it would not be a registered gun that would be used.

To truly fight crime it is not the weapon, but the person behind the weapon, that must change. When an evil-minded person changes from the inside out, replacing the evil thoughts and intentions with good, the crime will no longer be an issue. When a person is busy working and doing good things for others it makes them feel good about themselves and eliminates the intentions of harm.

So what would you do to make your country a safer place? Would you register your pressure cooker?