The frontier trail blazers who slowly moved across the country had to defend their patch of land with little or no help from any authorities. The history is littered with government betrayal, land disputes and compulsory purchases for railroads etc. that it was a brutal existence where you...
You are probably right about the psyche as the motivation for owning a gun is very different, with Canadians not seeing it as a constitutional right, the majority of their ownership is for hunting. Canada has approx. a third of the gun ownership per person of the US. Canadian gun laws are far...