Nick, Canada is a poster boy for the NRA. How, do you say. In the October Crisis, all Canadians woke up in the morning to find that all their rights such as free speech, free assembly, habeus corpus were suspended by the Federal government. All it took was a signature from the prime minister of the day. Yes, we got our rights back, but the episode only showed just how fragile those rights really were. That is why the Americans have the 2nd Amendment: to take back their rights, by arms if necessary, in the case the US government ever tried to pull something like Pierre Trudeau did.