There are 1.98 million firearms license holders in Canada. The population of Canada is 35 million. In 2011 there were 23,971,740 electors, people who can vote, on the list. So people with PAL, or POL, make up a grand total of approximately 0.08 of the voting population. Quite frankly, firearm owners are not even on the fucking radar of most the candidates. Just by shear numbers, they do not give a fuck about us. We are a complete and utter non entity.

Stop making this election about yourself and your guns and make it about the country as a whole. Vote based on what you think is best for the nation, not for yourself or your hobbies. Whether that is conservative, NDP, or whoever, it does not matter. So long as it is an informed and honest vote based on what is best for the nation, not yourself.

Just for the record I hate anti-gun rhetoric. I'm a gun owner and hunter. I believe firearms should a god-damn right and not a privileged, I think we should be allowed CCW. I think the restrictions on handguns and magazine limits are absolutely retarded, should be repealed, and that these things do not affect public safety appreciably. I believe, controversially, that deaths from lunatics with legally held firearms are the price we pay for our gun laws and unfortunately, are insignificant within the wider context and should not matter when making public gun policy. But there is more to what successful governance is than just gun policy. The liberals and the NDP won't touch guns. There won't be a new registry. But you can bet, regardless of what we do in the future, and this is very defeatist of me, but it is the prevailing global trend, that we will see gun bans in Canada from successive NDP and/or liberal governments. We will also probably see Australia-like laws within our lifetime. I hope to fuck I'm wrong.