... I happen to live in a town where almost every single household happens to have firearms. There are probably more firearms per capita per household than almost anywhere else in the province/Country. It's also a place where it's so safe that people don't even lock their doors.
Now the kicker is that any of the shootings and crime are 99% committed by Indigenous with one particular Reserve (there are 3 within a stones throw of the town and 1 has major issues with crime and rampant social problems) ...
I'm going to nuance this a titch, being in the same area code myself. I don't know about the weapons per capita here, but yeah, lots of legal, responsibly-used guns here.
I am comfortable adding that when it comes to illegal gun crime & offences short of killing people (illegal possession, gunfights, etc.) here, there's only a tiny number of arrests/charges involving folks who are
NOT import gang-bangers from Southern Ontario carrying out long-range pharmaceutical entrepreneurism in the sticks.
More evidence that law-abiding gun owners are a pretty slim fraction of offences in general here, too.
Then again, we see what we see around us, and most of the people (voters) living in the "magic triangle" of 50% population ....
... likely tend to see guns in bad people's hands, hence driving (in part) how the issue is viewed politically in Ottawa. Yeah, I know there are rural bits in the triangle, but those bits don't represent the majority of voters in that zone, I suspect.
