Ok, I'll look that up at your suggestion..
Gallup poll
The Right to Bear Arms: U.S. and Canada
"Canadians were asked, "For each of the following groups, please indicate whether or not you think they should be allowed, by law, to own a gun: the general public."
A majority of Canadians (63%) said they do not believe that the general public should be allowed to own a gun, while 36% said it should"
A poll conducted by a gun advocacy group in Canada (CFI) found this:
"The question was phrased as follows:
In Canada private ownership of firearms is legal for hunting, target practice and other recreational purposes. To own a firearm someone must be licensed by the government and cannot have a criminal record or mental instability. Should private ownership of firearms remain legal in Canada or should private firearms ownership be banned entirely?
· Private firearms ownership should remain legal in Canada - 75.8% -agreed"
Do not confuse that poll with the earlier. They are not inconsistent. One asks if all guns which are presently limited and registered be taken away. The Canadian answer to that is no. The Gallop asks about the general public having guns (in other words not limited to registered hunting, etc as in the second poll), and the Gallop poll says No to allowing it. Please cite your evidence that the majority of Canadians wish they had not given up their gun rights (there is no right to bear arms in Canada and never has been by the way, the law changes as do other laws over the years, but there are no "gun rights")
Turning to England
There was a recent online poll, in other words people who wanted to click could, this is the opposite of a random poll, and the online poll was for a newspaper identified as consistently conservative (think Fox News like). In that poll 85% wanted to repeal the ban on handguns. What result would you expect if the poll were limited to Fox News viewers in the US?
Here is a poll done in a neutral manner:
"ICM interviewed a random sample of 1000 adults aged 18+, by telephone between 31 May and 1 June 2006. Interviews were conducted across the country and the results have been weighted to the profile of all adults. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules." Its conclusions were:
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60 per cent of people think it is too easy to get a gun in the UK. "
So I would conclude, Canadians polls do not show the majority wish to change the gun control policy. I could not find an English poll exactly asking about reversing their gun control, but offer the one above which says that 60% think it is too easy to get a gun. Do you have a non-biased poll to support your claim? Or were you just "shooting from the hip?"