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u/drain-angel BC Jun 15 '22 edited Jun 15 '22

Issues with Canadian polling (self-serving pre-selected demographic & engineered questions) and extremely questionable weighting (55+) and methodology aside, I still find it interesting that in both countries where attitudes towards gun control are inverse with age.

Look at the Boomers, GenX/Late Millennial, Zoomers in both countries. Perhaps there's hope in Canada if anything down the road.

Also this contradicts a StatsCan survey from 2017 and an Angus Reid poll from last month. Makes me question the Leger panel since they've been the most accurate with elections.

Edit : Apparently 60% of Tories (n=359) want handguns banned on page 28. Lmao this data is bunk.

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u/DistortoiseLP Jun 16 '22 edited Jun 16 '22

The Angus Reid poll doesn't contradict it very much:

As for the question of banning handguns completely in Canada, the Angus Reid Institute found significant support for a ban in both 2019 and 2020.

In their data, current gun owners only slightly edge out opposing it and everyone else supports it, including former owners. It otherwise presents a two to one support on almost every other issue, including federal crackdown over provincial solutions.

The only question they found contention in was:

Would you support this type of gun buyback program knowing it would be funded by taxpayers?

The people who oppose this cannot be assumed to be gun owning sympathizers if they'd be happier seeing the guns confiscated without compensation instead. This is not the same question as asking if they're opposed to the purpose of a buyback program to take guns. That said, I don't know how informative data before April 2020 is supposed to be about attitudes now. That 2020 one also shows:

Most past Conservative voters oppose a ban on handguns but support one on assault weapons.

And only opposed the handgun ban at 59% at the time. "Contradictions" in that data compared to now can very well reflect that a lot has happened since then and a lot of opinions changed fast with them.