Anonymous ID: 0ad778 Jan. 30, 2022, 9:25 p.m. No.15507463   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Guns, as you know, were and continue for many to be a founding principle of the American nation. Founded in war, many Americans believe that gun ownership is an essential right, and although a considerable number are in favor of banning guns, to many owning a gun is about far more than merely possessing a weapon: it represents the culturally unique notion of American freedom and essential liberty, as well as conveying the notion that the government is beholden unto its citizens and not the other way around.

 

Canada, on the other hand, has no such history of firearms. To Canadians, the gun is not the symbol of freedom which it is to many across the United States, and why should it be? Canada was not founded with such concepts at its core, and there is no Second Amendment equivalent to be found in Canadian law, and certainly not in any document designed to set out essential rights. The key distinction here then is one of the American right to bear arms versus the Canadian privilege to do the same.

In the US, around 42.8% of households own a gun, whilst in Canada this figure is just 15.5%, with only 2.9% of people actually owning firearms.