A friend up in Canada who ranches with her husband and also works at a feedlot, just posted this to our local ranching community board. If this don’t speak volumes, I don’t know what does!
“Yesterday while we were at work a call came in that a tri-axle cattle truck lightly loaded with cows and calves had tipped while trying to make the corner off the main road onto a driveway. The driveway was narrow, with steep shoulders, and it sounds like the soft shoulder gave way and the trailer slowly tipped and over it went.
My boss and the feedlot owner’s son headed over to help, and the owner’s son then called the feedlot for someone to bring a gun. Sure, no problem. As she gets there, the office gal thinks about the paperwork (registration) that the gun doesn’t have, and the fact that neither the boss or owner’s son have an FAC (firearms acquisition certificate), which is a moot point since the gun is unregistered anyway, so she pulls up alongside the boss’s truck and slips the gun into the back seat, then goes to check with the boss, who is shaking his head as in, ‘don’t bring the gun out’. The RCMP are there in force, so the boss didn’t want to drag out an unregistered gun. Okay, so the RCMP are going to shoot the animals that need shooting, but they are scared to get close to them in case they get eaten or something. The boss asks the cop to give him the gun so he can put them out of their misery, but no, that wasn’t going to happen. The boss said it was enough to make you cry watching the cop try to kill a big charolais cow, and if anything, the SPCA should have been called on the cops for shooting them anywhere but in the kill zone!
I’m sure glad the Canadian government (Liberals, at that time) brought in gun control so that poor suffering cows have to suffer some more rather than be quickly dispatched by dangerous unregistered guns!
In the end, they shot one cow and four calves, but there could be more yet. The vet will be rechecking them for several more days, but hopefully the rest will be okay.”
Dennisranch 
Pretty stupid ain’t it!
I sure agree with Linda, laws are just dandy!