r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 13 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

Can someone smarter than I am explain to the class how a "majority of Canadians/gun owners support the freeze on handguns and the semi-auto ban, according to a new Leger poll that Poly is pushing?

'70% of gun owners

9 out of 10 Canadians

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u/TechnologyReady Radical Centrist Jun 15 '22

On the one-hand, the numbers coming from gun-owners seems to show there must be something wrong with this poll.

On the other hand... my father-in-law is a long-time gun owner (fudd) and ex-RCMP, and he doesn't really even understand this stuff. He supports Trudeau's ban on "assault weapons" because (he says) nobody needs a machine gun. Former RCMP officer. He also doesn't see why anybody should own a handgun.

So, given that the majority of gun owners in Canada are fudds, is this result as impossible as it seems?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

Too bad he’s too old to stack up. Seems like we would get along.