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Monday, May 17, 2004
Poll says: scrap gun registry
This is not a surprise: Canadians don't think they are getting value for their money with the gun registry. Most Canadians would rather have the money spent elsewhere:
The poll, commissioned by Conservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, found 61.6 per cent of Canadians who responded in a national telephone survey "strongly agree" the government should spend the money elsewhere [in other law enforcement activities].A further 15.1 per cent "somewhat" agreed with the suggestion, prompting Breitkreuz to say in a statement he intends to release today that fully 76.7 per cent of Canadians across the entire political spectrum agree the registry should be scrapped.
Conservative voters are of course those who are the most favourable to a repeal of the gun registry, but a repeal garners support from all over the political spectrum:
Fully 78.4 per cent of respondents who identified themselves as Tory voters strongly agreed with the following question: "Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with the following statement: The government could better fight violent crime by scrapping the $1-billion gun registry and redirecting the money to other law enforcement priorities?"A further 13.3 per cent of Conservative voters agreed "somewhat" with the statement.
Among Liberal and NDP voters, however, the response was not as enthusiastic.
A slight majority of Liberals, 56 per cent, agreed strongly with the statement, while 15.2 per cent of Liberal voters somewhat agreed. Support was lower among NDP voters, with only 53.6 per cent strongly agreeing and 15.6 per cent somewhat agreeing. In Quebec, 59.3 per cent of voters who align themselves with the Bloc Quebecois supported the idea, while 14.2 per cent somewhat agreed.
Posted by Laurent Moss on May 17, 2004 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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...thereby guaranteeing that the gun registry will never be repealed by a Liberal majority government. GET OUT THE VOTE!
Posted by: alan | 2004-05-17 8:21:11 PM
The gun registry isn't about crime. It's about the Liberals destroying the hated old Canadian culture and about ensuring that if Canadians ever have had enough of the feds that a mechanism exists to disarm them. The technique they use is gradualism. Slowly but surely banning one type of gun after another until all of the shooters are gone. My advice...go buy a new gun, a bunch of ammo and take some friends and their kids to a range and have a great time!
Posted by: John | 2004-05-17 10:10:54 PM
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