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Fuzzy Thinkers of the Day

That would be the majority of people in Canada -- or is it? -- who apparently still support the gun registry:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time convincing Canadians it's time to completely scrap the country's expensive gun registry program, a new opinion poll suggests.

The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for CanWest News Service and Global National, indicates two out of three Canadians believe the government should revamp the gun registry system.

''There's nothing ambiguous about this,'' said John Wright, senior vice-president at Ipsos Reid.

''The concept of a gun registry has taken root across the country. There's a majority, 67 per cent, that's not a small majority, who believe that Stephen Harper shouldn't be doing away with all gun registries.''

The poll of 1,001 Canadians was conducted May 9 to May 11, with a 3.1 percentage point margin of error, 19 times out of 20.

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Although opposition to the registry is strongest in the Western provinces, a majority of people in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are now in favour of more gun control, suggests the poll.

Overall, 54 per cent of Canadians suggested the current program created by the previous government was poorly organized, wasn't working properly and needed to be scrapped, and 56 per cent blamed the Liberals for the mismanagement.

Or maybe they're in favor of the handgun registry (created quite some time ago) but opposed to the long gun registry (which is a fiasco). The CanWest story is quite confusing.

The fuzzy thinkers here seem to be the liberal newspapers, CanWest, and Ipsos Reid -- who conducted the survey. Perhaps they could release all of the results, including the phraseology of the questions, to clear things up.

Instead, I suspect it really IS the Canadian people, alas, who are the fuzzy thinkers. 67% want the long gun registry "revamped". They still want it, but not in it's present form. In spite of it not working, not solving crimes, costing a fortune and making criminals out of law-abiding Canadians, the majority still want some form of long gun registration. That being the case, the country gets what it deserves. In England, if enough people had protested the confiscation of firearms, maybe Parliment would have backed off.