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This is a big issue that is roiling beneath the surface a present and occasional on the surface. Janey paints a pretty accurate picture of urban vs. rural.
My brother in law is a Toronto cop and works one of the more dangerous areas of the city (the Malvern area in the North East) and there are a lot of guns on the streets. Most of which are coming in from the US illegally.
That said, Canada just doesn't have the gun culture that the US has... I've only known one person who collected guns and had pistol. It was a P38 pistol from his time in the military. I know a few hunters that have rifles.
The average person just doesn't carry. There is not a general feeling that I need to get a gun to protect myself (and the stats bear this out - the number of murders by handguns are much lower per capita than what you have in the US).
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