Jon, I have no quarrel with what you say. You live there and I don't. You know your environment and all I know is that it is violent compared to many other countries. Sovereign countries choose how they want to live.

Canada, with a federal gun law, has fewer killings because of the kind of people we are, the laws we make for public safety. Most Canadians disagree strongly with common carry. They consider it unnecessary.

Your reasonable response to Ed was to raise the thought in me: Is there evidence that carrying overall is a deterrent to killing, indiscriminate or otherwise. Does carry strengthen public safety?

It may there. We don't think so here. Hence carry licenses rare.