“Men don’t wear pistols in Canada!”

[u/Borealbound]

The photographic, archaeological & written evidence seems to suggest otherwise.

Don‘t even make me delve into the first legislation against firearms ownership which dominion of Canada implemented and where those laws applied and who they were used against.

[u/hunterofsteelhead]

If theres any citizens in the world that are responsible and deserving of carrying firearms , its Canadians. Most of the people doing irresponsible things or crimes with firearms dont even look like theyve lived in Canada more than a few years.

[u/Borealbound → u/hunterofsteelhead]

I will contest that a little bit, I feel that citizens of every nation on the planet should have the right to carry and own firearms. Canada though is unique compared to many countries because there is a history of firearms ownership and a culture of marksmanship imbued within the national character. 

It would not be a stretch to say that there are people in Canada today who have multiple generations of family going back who owned firearms, perhaps in a continuous generation by generation basis. I was looking at an inventory of one of my ancestors who lived in possessions, he had a trunk of clothes, some hand tools, some cooking implements and a fusil.  

[u/hunterofsteelhead → u/Borealbound]

My father in law and grandfather in law tell me stories of how they used to ride the schoolbus with a .22 and shoot in the schools basement range. My dad tells me him and his friends used to shoot uzi when they were younger.