The election is the only poll that counts. The elimination of the LGR was a primary election plank of the Conservatives for years. 40% voted Conservative. Obviously, that in itself puts the lie to your claim of "massive" support for the registry.....then add to that 40% the untold numbers of NDP voters that depended on their elected NDP MPs to oppose the registry (two of whom actually did vote with the gov't), and you begin to understand that your claim is not only false, but ridiculous.
I think you had best stick to the issue of climate change, where stupidity is the conventional wisdom. You will be a guru, I predict.
If you think the right to bear arms has never been an individual right, then your reading skills are as poor as your math.
The phrase "the right of the people" is not arguable by anyone with an IQ higher than their hatsize. It appears in the US Bill of Rights.
The right is listed after the preamble states its purpose of "vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties" in the English Bill of Rights.
You are making a damned fool of yourself.
Are you incapable of coherent, rational and logical argument? The above pile of non sequiturs and outright stupidity suggest that you are not.
First, kindly try to keep your bile down for long enough to explain how the election is the only Poll (survey, actually, for the Registry) that counts? It has sweet FA to do with it. The Registry is one issue among scores and all will have differing scores.
Then, the last survey done showed that 62% and I am not terribly interested in a Toronto Sun distortion.
The Right to bear Arms was a Right to defend the established order as a member of a militia. It was never a Right to carry arms for any other purpose.
I have already explained the origins in England and they are not in the English Bill of Rights as any absolute Right.
The Right of the people indicates what I said it does. It is not an inalienable individual Right - a foolish term, btw.
Why do you think that the "Right," as the proponents see it, has been extinguished in all the Common Law counties without successful challenge - except for the USA?
If you continue to sling around the idiot slurs, then I will get a little more abrasive and the same applies to taxslave.
I am rather surprised at ou raising Kopel, a notorios libertarian. There are many more reasonable thinkers on both sides. And Kopel clearly is deficient in his understandong of some of the background English thinkers and jurists.
Coke was a defender of the state and a Parliamentarian. He maintaines that the people had the Right to remove a government but never said it was through violent means.
His decisions on the Stamp Act and on another case influenced the American framers but they had already been discarded in England where Blackstone saw Parliament as sovereign and did not advocate for any Right of the people to bear Arms for other than the traditional militia purpose.
As far as the American Constitution goes, nowhere do I see any support for a Right to remove government by any means other than democratic ones. Always it is related to a militia and a militia, both organized and unorganized is for the defense of the realm not its overthrow.
Going back into antiquity, much the same applies. Tortured interpretations of meanings do not make support.