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I still have my .57 calibre 1861 Enfield percussion cap rifle, which has not been fired in at least a hundred years, and is only good as a decoration over the fireplace.
Well, I guess I could also take it off its mounts, and use it to clock an intruder. But it's 15 lbs., and I have a much lighter baseball bat that can accomplish the same thing.
It's estimated that 33% of all Canadian households have at least one firearm or more. That estimate is for households, not people, so I think it also means that more than 33% of the Canadian population possess firearms. I was given my first rifle for my 9th birthday and I owned several rifles for more than 50 years. I sold off the very last 3 of them when I was in my early 60's since I no longer had a need for them and didn't want them any more. Lived in cities, small towns and out in the deep woods on homestead farms, and have lived in locations on the coast and in other points between British Columbia's southern border all the way up to Yukon and even Alaska. Always had guns in the house and I never knew many other people who didn't or don't own guns. They just don't talk about it much.
I have lived where there are grizzlies, black bears, wolves, cougars, wolverines, coyotes, elk, moose, deer, bighorn mountain sheep and all manner of other native animals that are smaller than the above listed. In all my years of living in towns or in rural places I have never needed to hunt animals for food and never needed to shoot at any of those types of wild native animals if they came on my property. They generally run like hell off the property if you make a lot of loud clanging metal noises at them or if your guard dogs bark at them. They don't like to be around people and human habitations if they can avoid it - unless they become habituated by foolish, ignorant humans who think they live in Disney's fantasy land and feed the wild animals to bait them in to keep them coming back. Those people either don't recognize or don't care that they are the cause of an unnaturally early death for the animals that they bait with food.
But I have several times had to kill or drive off packs of feral dogs that were attacking and killing my livestock. Feral dogs in the wilderness and poorly trained domestic farm dogs that are allowed to run loose off their own property have been the worst for killing other things indiscriminately just for the joy of harassing, terrorizing and killing, not for eating their kills, and then returning again and again to do it some more if they can get away with it. So sometimes it was necessary to sit up through the night waiting for them and get the drop on the rest of them after they made the first strike.
And I have also used my guns to kill livestock when it was time for them to be slaughtered, butchered and go to freezer camp. But I don't keep livestock any more now and get what I want from local farmers. I live in the middle of an agricultural town and we do have lots of wild animals passing through every night, bears, skunks, raccoons, deer, coyotes but they aren't bothering anyone. Sometime cougars become a bother and need to have the conservation officers relocate them to places far away in the wilderness.
The only wild animals I've had trouble with when living in the country were bobcats and cougars - they are the boldest and sneakiest of all and those that become habituated to human communities or that are badly injured and are starving have been known to attack children, small adults, pets, livestock for a meal. But I've never needed to kill any cougars on my properties, I just made a lot of noise and chased them off.
I've never had serious problems with strangers (humans) trespassing or being threatening enough that I felt I needed to brandish a gun at them. I just call the cops on them. And humans are usually susceptible to reason or trickery to get them to go away.
Concealed carry is still illegal in Canada.mist guns here are hunting rifles. I have never even seen a gunm
The only people I have seen carrying guns are police/security.
I think the reason that there are less guns in Canada is that we are less paranoid about our fellow citizens....Maybe Americans have good reason for that, I don't know.
No guns. No need for them. I 'm not a hunter, nor need one for sport.
Grew up in a house with a hunting rifle. Dad hunted maybe twice. Wasn't for him. I asked years later about us kids finding his rifle and looking at it when my parents were out. I inquired about the safety of doing that. His answer made total sense. He knew kids are curious and would probably have found the rifle, but we would never find the bullets. They weren't kept anywhere near our place. Didn't ask where.
My partner's grew up in a very remote part up north. Family had rifles, for sport and hunting.
Only people I've known to have access to a handgun, are friends that are/were cops, but like most police in Canada, they aren't allowed to take the gun home.
Zoisite... 33% of households? That's higher than I would've guessed.
Nobody in my close group of friends (approx 12) own a firearm or have a license to or have an interest in buying one.
The only people I've come across with a firearm are hunters. So mainly rifles or shotguns.
The contrast between Canada and certain States is a complete 180. My favourite example is that gun advocate who purposely walked into a Walmart opening carrying an assault rifle the day after a major public shooting incident to reinforce his rights to open carry etc. Obviously that became an incident and cops were called.
I guess I'm just saying that the gun culture is generally much more "restrictive" and "taboo" in Canada. I remember the big hoo haa about people walking down the GTA streets with an air rifle... a couple incidents where cops were called right away and the idiot was taken down. I only refer to them as idiots because it's obvious that cops would be called if you did that in a major city in Canada.
Zoisite... 33% of households? That's higher than I would've guessed.
Nobody in my close group of friends (approx 12) own a firearm or have a license to or have an interest in buying one.
The only people I've come across with a firearm are hunters. So mainly rifles or shotguns.
The contrast between Canada and certain States is a complete 180. My favourite example is that gun advocate who purposely walked into a Walmart opening carrying an assault rifle the day after a major public shooting incident to reinforce his rights to open carry etc. Obviously that became an incident and cops were called.
I guess I'm just saying that the gun culture is generally much more "restrictive" and "taboo" in Canada. I remember the big hoo haa about people walking down the GTA streets with an air rifle... a couple incidents where cops were called right away and the idiot was taken down. I only refer to them as idiots because it's obvious that cops would be called if you did that in a major city in Canada.
I would find it very abnormal in Canada for a city slicker to have guns. I would think they were criminals. There would be the odd exception such as a hunter but for some reason I think hunters don't usually live in cities and if they are the offspring of city dwellers, I don't know how they could be exposed to guns in an organic rural way. But even among rural people hunters are few and far between. At least they are here. Some neighbours of mine have taken up target shooting in the last few years but its a relatively new thing.
It's estimated that 33% of all Canadian households have at least one firearm or more. That estimate is for households, not people, so I think it also means that more than 33% of the Canadian population possess firearms.
How many Canadian households have guns? Based on reputable surveys, between 23% and 33% of Canadian households have at least one member who owns firearms and does so in a responsible manner.
However, the article goes on to say:
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Angus Reid found that 6% of women reported owning a firearm (.06 x 822 = 49) which is 24% of gun owners (49/208). Since women under report by an estimated 16%, their female estimate is boosted by this percentage (the number of female owners is boosted to 54), giving a new total of 215 gun owners. After making this correction we estimate that 14% of Canadians, or 4.19 million, are firearms owners.
That ^^ sounds like a more reasonable explanation.
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