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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
While I totally get and respect other countries' cultures and laws and have no problem with Canadians' anti-gun sentiment, what you wrote above just isn't reality. In most (US) states where CCW is allowed, under 2% of the population has permits and probably only a fraction of them carry. Just because you can doesn't mean you will. And I'm not aware of a single altercation where two legal carriers escalated things to a gunfight. It just doesn't happen. Legal gun carriers tend to be the most law-abiding, well-behaved citizens. It's extremely rare, statistically negligent, that a legal carrier loses his right to carry because of misbehaving with a gun. I've been in several car accidents (never my fault) while I was carrying and the thought of even showing my gun never entered my mind. Anyone who would do so is not likely to be otherwise law-abiding or stay out of trouble for very long.
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Hey Rick, I realize that not everyone in the US carries but it's natural that the more citizens that believe that they need a weapon to feel secure, the more that will carry. The natural outcome is more and more people will carry, that is with a CCW or not. This thread seems to have got a little PARF like, Canadians are very close cousins to Americans, and yes there are cultural differences, but fundamentally we're about as close as two countries can be. Hey I like you guys!