[quote=Dervish]
That's because Canadians tend not to get worked up about firearms in the way Americans do, despite there's enough firearms in Canada to arm 1/3 of the population. Out here in central Alberta, if you tell someone you own a gun is like saying you own a car or a power drill..
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Yeah, but if you're 16, [i]owning[/i] a car, and being able to take it out on saturday afternoons and drift around on the ice with it... or enroll in competitive drag-races with it... is a pretty big deal...

Heck, even if you're 43 and going through a midlife-crisis... getting top-score in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack_World_Championship]a certain lumberjack-ing competition[/url] is probably worth bragging aboot, don'tcha-know.

edit: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yeF-qNp8Ns]and there's nothing quite like playing a good clean game of 'chicken' with a pair of loaded shotguns.[/url]