Yessir. You watch your collective backs down there!!!!

In Canada, all firearm ownership is a criminal offence. As a firearms owner, one must be in possession of a possession and acquisition license which fundamentally is a permit to possess illegal goods. Lose the permit, and you are an automatic criminal.

We can't even fart without a half dozen safety courses and close to a $grand spent doing it, plus for handguns, one must be a member in good standing at a gun club. Even then, handgun (aka, "restricted firearms)ownership is highly controlled. We need a special authorization to transport in order to go to/from a government approved and frequently inspected range if heaven forbid, we want to shoot the pistol. Stop for a pack of smokes along the way, and you are subject to arrest and jail time for not taking the most reasonably direct route to/from the range.

Many firearms are outright banned. A basic DWM Luger is considered "Probibited" because the barrel is too short, I.e. Less than 105mm in length; .32 and .25 caliber handguns are also prohibited. A small handful of lucky souls are grandfathered and are allowed to own prohibited firearms, but I am not one of them because I didn't happen to own a short barrelled handgun when bill C68 was brought into law by the Liberals (Canadian version of a very left leaning Democrat)

Socialism is a very serious and debilitating disease indeed and I say a prayer every night that our American cousins do not suffer the same serious affliction as we in Canada have contracted.

Overall, crime in Canada involving firearms is not a pervasive problem for the general population however there are frequent almost nightly shootings in some of the predominantly black neighborhoods, Jane and Finch, Flemingdon Park, Regent Park, etc. Just this morning, they showed a handgun on the news recovered at a Flemingdon Park shooting, a revolver with a 2" barrel..... I guess nobody told them that their handgun was a prohibited weapon.

In Canada, everybody gets the same basic free education at least through to the end of high school, and all non cosmetic medical costs are covered, basically everyone gets a reasonable chance at success and nobody starves. So WTF???? Are there social or cultural issues at play in some segments of Canadian society???

Excuse me, I must stop typing, so I can go and fill out my renewal forms for my possession and acquisition license, get my passport photos, beg my wife and ex girlfriend to fill out their sections and sign the forms so that the government can do their background check including consulting them to see if I ever raise my voice on occasion thus should be denied my permit and have my rifles and shotguns confiscated. Yes, to be a legal gun owner here truly requires a passion strong enough to put up with a great deal of bullshit, but the criminals being criminals don't really care about the ever more restrictive gun laws. The Liberals though will continue their anti gun crusade to ensure that guns don't exist in the possession of legal and law abiding citizens, but in some segments of our society, the beat goes on.... unaddressed by ever more restrictive bullshit laws.