Uneducated Redneck White Male Conservatives from Western Canada hate gun control
Robert Peffers
Last Updated: Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 8:50 PM ET
CBC News
Canadians have mixed views on what to do about the long-gun registry,
with slightly more preferring to abolish the program than keep it, but
nearly a third having no opinion on the subject, a new EKOS poll
suggests.
Poll results indicate a slim majority of Canadians favour banning gun
ownership completely, although a large number of respondents said
Canadians should have the legal right to bear arms.
In the poll, conducted exclusively for CBC News, Canadians were asked
how they would have voted on the recent bill to abolish the long-gun
registry.
Thirty-eight per cent said they would have voted to abolish the
registry, and 31 per cent would have voted to keep it. Thirty-one per
cent were undecided or did not have a response.
Earlier this month, the federal long-gun registry moved a step closer
to being abolished when a private member's bill to scrap the program
passed second reading in the Commons.
Bill C-391, which now goes to committee, would destroy the decade-old
registry and any data within the system on about seven million
shotguns and rifles.
The EKOS poll suggests supporters of the gun registry are more likely
to be university-educated, Liberal or BQ supporters, or living in
Quebec. Respondents opposed to the registry include Conservatives,
people living in the Prairies, and Canadians aged 65 and over.
The survey also asked about attitudes toward gun ownership in general.
Fifty-four per cent of people surveyed agreed with the statement that
“with the exception of law enforcement, gun ownership should be
outlawed completely."
Forty-six per cent of those polled agreed with the statement that “all
Canadian citizens should have a legal right to bear arms.”
Men, residents of Alberta, the Prairies and Atlantic Canada and
Conservative Party supporters were more likely to oppose outlawing gun
ownership, while women, Quebecers, Liberals and Bloc Québécois
supporters were more likely to support banning it.
A clear majority of respondents — 64 per cent — believed there should
be a strict ban on guns in urban areas, an opinion found across all
regions and demographic groups, the poll found. About 27 per cent of
those polled disagreed with such a ban, and about nine per cent were
undecided or did not have a response.
The survey of 3,051 people was conducted by telephone between Nov.11
and Nov. 17 and has an error margin of plus or minus 1.8 percentage
points, 19 times out of 20. Both landline and cellphone users were
included.(EKOS)
Crap Detector
I am a conservative like most Western Canadians and am well educated
with an honors university degree. I have two guns--one shot gun and a
30-30 rifle. I was forced to take the gun registry course back in 2002
which I passed
easily. There is nothing wrong with guns but plenty wrong with people
like you--a dumb fuck who cannot tell shit from paste.
jimjames5417
We also hate anti-white racists like yourself and the Communist
Broadcasting Corporation - but nobody ever makes up poll results about
that!!
Scotius
more murders were committed in Canada with knives than with guns, it
makes it look like you're wrong, BECAUSE YOU ARE.
When Asian "gangsters" are responsible for almost all
shootings in Toronto for a given year, and the idiot mayor shouts for
more gun control, HE SHOULD BE SHOT. THAT is the problem Bob.
>ownership, while women, Quebecers, Liberals and Bloc Qu�b�cois