Stihl-When I was a kid back in the 70s I lived 30 miles from town in central B.C., my parents had no guns, but all our nieghbors did. They were all ranchers or loggers, they all had a loaded rifle leaned by the back door (loaded but you had to cycle it to fire). Any stray dog or predator got blasted, no questions. My parents had the brains to see to it our nieghbors taught me some gun safety, they are really just a tool, similar to a chainsaw in many ways. Our violent crime rate rises from east to west, murder is very rare in Newfoundland yet they have high gun ownership. The high murder rate in the U.S. is not just because of the usually given reasons (poverty, racism etc.) but also because they are proud, individualistic and think in more black and white terms. In Canada we are apathetic. How do you get Canadians out of a swimming pool? Excuse me, could you please all get out of the pool. As far as Canadians been historically peacefull, I have to disagree. We were in South Africa in the 1890s fighting for the British, WW1 1914-18 WW2 1939-45, Korea 1950? with over a 100 000 dead from a county with a pretty small population. At the end of WW2 the Canadian armed forces were huge compared to our population, well equipped and had a really good reputation as fighters. The gun registry here has been a complete farce, I really hope Paul Martin and his gang of lyin,stealing culls get turfed.