Supporters of the registry tend not to be passionate about it -- we, and I'm one of the supporters, think it makes sense and helps a bit (not a vast amount but it's paid for and does help some).
Those who oppose it are passionate.
So it's a squeeky wheel issue:
Postmedia News, National Post
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010
By Mark Kennedy
OTTAWA — Two-thirds of Canadians support the controversial long-gun registry and even voters who back Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives are split on the issue, a new poll has found.
The national survey conducted exclusively for Postmedia News and Global Television finds that support for the registry stands at 66% nationally. Moreover, support is strong in regions throughout the country — even though Harper has said his party will not "rest" until it abolishes the registry.
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No surprise here. Most people do not own guns, myself included.
The one who do, ie. hunters,sportsmen,and farmers, massively oppose it.
They are the ones who get targeted.
The urban criminal does not give two
hoots. He is laughing at the naive politicians, who think this reduces crime.
A criminal by very definition doesn't give two hoots about any law. Try again, this time with better PMO talking points, please.
Good to see the CPC F@CK themselves yet again.
James, as a future politician, all you have to do to end all fears and all protest against the registry is guarantee that no future government can ban guns that are legal today. Promise that no future politician can promise to steal my property for votes and I won't care about the registry anymore. Of course, recent Liberal history shows that's not likely to happen, not with Martin's hand gun ban and Dion's "military rifle" ban.
Supposedly this poll was of an 'online panel' (whatever that means). But the Conservatives can't lose anything from this anyway...they can only gain. As you say, we are passionate about this and it has always been part of the Conservative platform, so even if we don't win all 14 of those rural seats that the Liberals and NDP have so kindly offered us a chance to steal from them, our supporters will really open their wallets over this and give us millions in extra donations. Win-win either way.
I really don't understand what the Liberals and NDP thought they had to gain from this...am I missing something?
I'll trust an election instead of some online poll.
The Libs didn't fight this because they thought they stood to gain from it, but because they thought it was the right thing to do. But it's simple not true that all long guns owners are against the registry. And its even less true that all rural folk are: especially women (except for those who like to go husband, I mean bear, hunting). I wouldn't be so confident counting all them chickens, if I was you, Con-Bots. Bet you lose more seats over the QC arena business - either way -- than you gain over the long gun fiasco.
That dang gun registry is just too much work - way more work than tendering bids for gun-totin' fighter jets.
This site is great.He is laughing at the naive politicians, who think this reduces crime. Promise that no future politician can promise to steal my property for votes and I won't care about the registry anymore.
As trustworthy as a politicians promise?
The registry has been proven to be nothing but a means for confiscation, as Toronto's "safe city" program has shown. Once they are on the list, it's simply a matter of time before they decide that these guns look too frightening and a movie had one of those guns so they need to go too. Crime in Toronto goes up so the knee jerk reaction is to ban all firearms in city limits, despite all the crimes being done with illegal handguns, not the long guns. The facts don't matter here because ideology says the solution is banning all guns.
This poll appears to be an anomaly as it is a total reversal of all previous polls that favoured ending the long gun registry. Consider also that the Global media group have consistently been anti-firearms. They consistently parrot pro-registry statements without demanding documented proof or empirical studies that would verify the pro-registry position.
No wonder the majority of Canadians do not know the difference between licensing and registration.
If anything this poll demonstrates that ignorance and prejudice can overcome reason and facts
why you so concerned about what goes on in Toronto, Ridenrain, rather than in your own community of New West, where a local gun dealer brings in weapons from the US which make their way to gangsters? Got a piece of that action, do you?
http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=e9e8dcd5-3c37-40c5-8c12-45819829663c
"If anything this poll demonstrates that ignorance and prejudice can overcome reason and facts" -- well, I guess that's good news for you Conservatives, then, eh?
Dear coward:
I think even you would agree that those are the people who the police should be going after because those are the people doing the crimes, not some law abiding taxpayer with a 6' long goose gun.
Why not crack down on the illegal drug industry that goes hand in hand with the violence..or do you have a piece of that action?
ah, stop yer whining: if they're law-abiding, prove it: fill out the forms to register the guns: which is free, and only needs to be done once, for as long as they own the guns. (Unlike tax forms and vehicle reg's & other govt forms which have to be done yearly or even monthly or quarterly, like a biz's GST). Sheesh, some of you are carrying on like these are mandatory monthly blood transfusions or something.
Hey RiddenOff: guess what -- not only has your hero SunTV had to climb down from its 'You better create a special category for us' license demands,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/sun-tv-gears-down-licence-application/article1743859/
but the Harper gov't itself is also doing what you complained so bitterly (and inappropriately) about Soros doing: spending millions to interfere in another country's electoral processes (by, you know, trying to ensure that it's more open, transparent, and democratic).
www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/10/05/haiti-election-aid.html
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