Why are Canadians so afraid of guns??

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I tripped across this article, I was particularly surprised at all the comments at the bottom. It seems a large majority of the population in Canada is afraid of handguns and is anti gun.

I always thought Canada was a little more.... well... cool. I've always wanted to travel up there and I knew they are more strict with handguns than the US but throwing someone in prison for 3 years for a simple mistake??? :banghead:

Oh and apparently we are paranoid? :rolleyes: LOL the only thing I'm paranoid about is Canada now! My kind gets arrested at the border, you know.... God fearing family man with one handgun in the console. ;)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/06/louis-dinatale-gun-border_n_4737540.html?ref=topbar
 
Good question. They also love national healthcare. All sounds pretty liberal to me. I do think it might vary by region though, kind of like NYC as compared to rural Kentucky.
 
eastern Canadians are afraid of guns and very liberal with other people's money and curtailing anybody's rights to own a gun let alone carry one.

central and western Canadians are far more conservative and have more of a pioneer spirit, and less dependent upon the government. these folks are of course outnumbered and fall victim to the Ottawa crowd.
 
I think that the article is somewhat biased and skewed. I seriously doubt that the majority of Canadians actually fears handguns. Rather, I think a small, but significant, percentage of the population is anti-gun and promotes that; a amall percentage of the population is pro-gun; and the vast majority are actually indifferent and could care less in their day-today lives.

As for Canadians loving their national health care...I don't blame them. It's NOTHING AT ALL like this cluster-fornicated debacle we have instituted in the United States. Theirs is a real, socialized health care system, deliberately kept simple (and therefore inexpensive) and is mostly free at the point of treatment.

What we have instituted here in the U.S. is really nothing more than a government run insurance scam at the expense of the taxpayers that will NOT render most treatments free at the point of treatment.

Lots of other differences...suffice it to say that the United States has successfully proven the old adage that too many cooks spoil the spoil the broth and when nobody is accountable then nobody will be held accountable.
 
I'm in Canada now. You're supposed to declare a pocket knife when you come in the country.....

They're friendly people though.
 
Probably part of the bias you are perceiving is that you are reading the article on Huffington Post's Canadian website. That's a pretty liberal news organization. If you read it on something like Fox News Canada (if such a thing exists), it might not seem to liberal in the comment section.
 
I wrote several paragraphs, then erased them. They had to do with 60's era draft dodgers. I could go on and on about the contempt I have for those people, but I won't. Draw your own conclusions about Canadians. There's a lot of French influence there, as well as a growing Muslim population.

Edited out several more paragraphs before I get into too much trouble. Jerry said it best, western Canadians - good, eastern - bad. Western are self sufficient, eastern believe big government is the answer.

I better stop now.
 
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Ha ha thanks mugsie. I know what you are talking about, I often erase what I write about similar countries like New Jersey, New York City and Washington D.C. ;)

And yes I ment countries.
 
You gotta remember that the kind of person who reads the Huffington Post tends to be pretty far to the left, so you're getting a biased sample from those letters.

How's about we do this -- arrest a Canadian in retaliation, and see what they say?:evil:
 
rem44m said:
I tripped across this article, I was particularly surprised at all the comments at the bottom. It seems a large majority of the population in Canada is afraid of handguns and is anti gun.

I always thought Canada was a little more.... well... cool. I've always wanted to travel up there and I knew they are more strict with handguns than the US but throwing someone in prison for 3 years for a simple mistake??? :banghead:

Oh and apparently we are paranoid? :rolleyes: LOL the only thing I'm paranoid about is Canada now! My kind gets arrested at the border, you know.... God fearing family man with one handgun in the console. ;)

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/06/louis-dinatale-gun-border_n_4737540.html?ref=topbar
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Why are Americans afraid of auto opening knives and bulletproof vests?
 
JERRY said:
eastern Canadians are afraid of guns and very liberal with other people's money and curtailing anybody's rights to own a gun let alone carry one.

central and western Canadians are far more conservative and have more of a pioneer spirit, and less dependent upon the government. these folks are of course outnumbered and fall victim to the Ottawa crowd.
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East coast liberals? What a concept!
 
PabloJ, those are legal in free states, or haven't you heard?
 
Canada's alright, I've been up there a bunch of times. Many Canadians have a smarmy attitude about their perception of Americans, but that is typically based on generic assumptions of what they think the US is like. Funny, they do like to take American money just fine...
 
east Canada has the arrogant thinking of the French and the nanny state thinking of the British.

western Canada had to forge their own way in rough country, learned to be a bit more self reliant and honorable.
 
Blame in on the French and Liberals . Like man said go west different country . Eastern side of Canada sucks . I used to travel their 3 or 4 times ever month. Hated the place.
 
Eastern Canada, I'm not surprised. The further east you go the worse it seems to get.
Try western Ontario, Manitoa, Saskatchewan, they'd rather join the western US than stay with Canada. It's a different mindset.
 
THR exists to facilitate a higher level of discourse than normally found on internet fora.

Since this thread can't seem to get past meaningless generalizations, insulting the French and blaming "liberals" for societal ills I'm going to close it down out of shame.

I am disappointed. We can do better than this.
 
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