20,000,000 + firearms in Canada, get off your canadian high horse
Firearms aren't the problem, idiots are
I don't disagree for the most part, but having as many guns as they do leads to bad situation. But, we do not have a gun fetish like they do. We do not have jackasses strapping on AR-15s and Glocks when they go out to buy coffee at a Starbucks. We do not have daily mass shootings. I'm definitely not saying every gun owner here is responsible, but we also have significantly few accidental shootings (I mean, I cannot even think of the last time something like that happened). I'm not sure how many suicidal people have lived because they didn't have access to a firearm.
I think that many of these gun owners feel like they can be the hero if there is ever a crime. Yes, that does happen from time to time. But, I don't recall it ever happening where a legal gun owner stopped a mass shooting. In fact, they are probably more likely to shoot a bystander than the actual gunman. I've talked about an incident that happened at the Empire State building about a decade ago. Basically, a dude went there and shot his ex-wife or girlfriend and some other folks. He left and was confronted by two NYPD officers who opened fired, shooting something like 25 times. They did fatally shoot the gunman, but also hit like 9 bystanders (thankfully none died).
en.wikipedia.org
The point is, these two were trained to use their weapon. Imagine if Johnny Gun Club was shooting with all that stress...He'd be lucky to hit anything....
globalnews.ca
