Same in Canada. Practically anyone here can own a gun, and a lot of people do, but the licensing, training, and safety culture is so deep that our gun murder rate is much lower than yours (still high-ish by world standards).
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It’s really hard to get a hand gun here, and not many people are running around with long guns and shot guns jacking people. Hunters own rifles and occasionally hand guns, a few people own hand guns for protection or target shooting, criminals get illegal guns from the US and stolen Canadian guns.
Yeah, guns in Canada are almost exclusively tools or sporting equipment. The gun owners I know are either hunters, or they work n the bush (prospectors, timber cruisers, etc), and a few are serious outdoorsy types who spend time in the north (polar bears don't take no for an answer, I'm told.)
We aren't on track to do anything of the kind. There's been some pointless posturing by the Liberals, as there always is. The one useful thing the Cons might do is roll back some of the bad Liberal gun policy, which does nothing to address actual gun-crime in Canada.
Time will tell. While it looks like a conservative victory is likely, I don't think gun rights will be preserved within the next few decades for Canada.
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