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North Shore residents OK with tougher gun control, poll finds

North Shore residents overwhelmingly say it should be harder to get and keep guns
Brent Richter
Brent Richter
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A handgun was among the weapons seized by Burnaby Mounties at a Coquitlam residence in June, 2021.Burnaby RCMP

Withing days of the Uvalde mass shooting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada would be bringing in tougher gun control legislation, including an eventual freeze on the sale or importation of handguns.

How do North Shore residents feel about tougher rules for guns?

North Shore News polled 1,180 online readers and asked the question: Do you support tougher gun control laws in Canada?

The poll ran from May 30 to June 3 on our website. Of the 1,180 votes, we can determine that 457 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Yes, getting and keeping guns should be very difficult. 80.09% local, 70.08% total    
No, Canada's gun laws are strict enough. 15.32% local, 23.14% total    
I believe we need less gun control. 3.94% local, 6.69% total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult North Shore News readers who are located in North Vancouver and West Vancouver. The margin of error – which measures sample variability – is +/- 2.84%, 19 times out of 20.

North Shore News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.