Gun Control has Absolutely NOTHING to do With Western Canada Control.

More Tales from "Land Of The Midnight Sun", "Rory Borealis Land" = Western Canada.

According to Canadian Federal law from a practical perspective, there are three and only three, lawful reasons for a person to privately own a gun in Canada.  They include:

 hunting,

And (also varmint control

 [non-human]), collecting, and target shooting.The desire to conduct ANY form of guerilla warfare is not considered BY THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE- IN "Rory Borealis Land" as a reason, or give you ANY INHERENT, OR OTHER right to carry a side arm/hand gun.

Thankfully; and as WAS and IS thoroughly, indicated, justified (NO MAN’S LAND KILLING FIELDS OF SURREY BC, throughout the Fraser Valley; and thorough out the rest of Canada. “Self Defence” is also NOT recognised by the Canadian government (or any other sovereign country-other than the United States of the Americas) as an acceptable, lawful, logical, necessary, reasonable, or wanted reason to own a gun.

Though movies and television would like us to believe otherwise, it was very rare when gunfights occurred with the two gunfighters squarely facing each other from a distance in a dusty street. This romanticized image of the Old West gunfight was born in the dime novels of the late 19th century and perpetuated in the film era, to such a point that this fictional version is what our mind’s eye quickly conjures up when we hear the word "gunfight.” In actuality, the "real” gunfights of the Old West were rarely that "civilized.”

In fact, there are several misnomers about these "romanticized” gunfights, the first of which is that very rarely, did the gunfighters actually "plan” a gunfight to occur, "calling out” their enemy for duelling action in the street. Instead, most of these many fights took place in the heat of the moment when tempers flared, and more often than not, with the aide of a little bottled courage. They also didn’t occur at a distance of 75 feet, with each gunfighter taking one shot, one falling dead to the ground, and the other standing as a "hero" before a dozen gathered onlookers.

Instead, these fights were usually close-up and personal, with a number of shots blasted from pistols or revolvers (Remember, Thankfully, semi-automatics did not yet exist), often resulting in innocent bystanders hit by a bullet gone wild. Much of the time, it would be difficult to tell who had even "won” the gunfight for several minutes, as the black powder smoke from the pistols cleared the air.

This is not to say that it never happened similar to the movies. One of the rare instances is the Bill Hickok-David Tutt Shootout in Springfield, Missouri. Even then, it wasn’t a "planned" event, but rather, it occurred when Wild Bill ran into Tutt in the street and was “INSULTED”.

List Some Famous Gunfights Occurring in Frontier United States of the Americas:

Battle at Blazer's Mill (1878)

Blackwell, Oklahoma Gunfight (1896)

Buckshot Roberts Last Stand (1878)

Cherokee Courtroom Shoot-out (1872)

Dalton Gang at Coffeyville, Kansas (1892)

El Paso Gunfight (1881)

Frisco Shootout (1884)

Harrison-Levy Shootout (1877)

Hyde Park Gunfight/Newton Massacre (1871)

Bill Hickok-Phil Coe (1871)

Bill Hickok-David Tutt Shootout (1865)

Lampasas Saloon Gunfight (1873)

Lampasas Square Shoot Out (1877)

Hunnewell, Kansas Gunfight (1884)

Ingalls, OK Gunfight With the Doolin Gang (1893)

Las Vegas, NM Saloon Shootout (1880)

Long Branch Saloon Shootout (1879)

O.K. Corral Gunfight (1881)

Owens-Blevins Shootout (1887)

Rock Creek Station & the McCanles Massacre (1861)

Sandbar Fight (1887)

Luke Short-Jim Courtright Duel (1887)

Spokogee Gunfight (1902)

Talbot Cowboys Shootout (1881)

Trinidad, Colorado Saloon (1882)

There are a number of gunfighters that whose names were well-known while they were still alive and are just as quickly recognized today, including Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Bat Masterson, Bill Hickok, and Doc Holliday. Their reputations spread by word of mouth, usually resulting in a number of exaggerations and inaccuracies. These already exaggerated tales grew bigger with the retelling, often in the popular dime novels of the time. Other lesser known shootists, that saw just as much, if not more action than their well-known counterparts were men such as Ben Thompson, Tom Horn, Kid Curry, King Fisher, Clay Allison, and Dallas Stoudenmire, just to name a few.

Note: all are from the United States of the Americas.

Canadians not being desirous of having a bunch of drunken assholes; such as the real:

·         Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, guerrilla, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang.

·         John Peters Ringo —known as Johnny Ringo—was a known associate of the loosely federated group of outlaw Cochise County Cowboys in frontier Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory.

·          Wyatt Earp, [HORSE THEIF, gambler, brothel owner, pimp].

·         Wild Bill Hickok - went west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice, first working as a stagecoach driver, then as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought (and spied) for the Union Army during the American Civil War and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor and professional gambler. Hickok joined "General" Jim Lane's "Free State Army" (also known as the "Jayhawkers"), a vigilante group then active in the Kansas Territory and was involved in several notable shootouts. While a JAYHAWKER, he met 12-year-old William Cody (later known as "Buffalo Bill") who, despite his age, was a scout for the U.S. Army during the Utah War.[6] He was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota) by an unsuccessful gambler, Jack McCall. The card hand which he held at the time of his death (aces and eights) has come to be known as the "Dead Man's Hand".

All of whom; according to the ”law of the land” should all have been hanged at a very young age -such as history—not United States of the Americas legend has proven; just do not indicate any justification for such measure. 

The Canadian government-- chosen by Eastern Canadian voters or not—and the those that really have the say THE CITIZENS OF CANADA –HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT people have THE right to protection WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE POLICE FORCES. Grandfather Girvan, my father, all aunts and uncles  on the paternal side of the family had no civilian use for “hand guns “FOR SEVERAL PREVIOUS CENERATIONS my great, great , grandparents, my mother’s mother and father(originally for Ontario by the way); while they used rifles and guns EXTENSIVELY as a tool in everyday life had NO  Need Of A “Hand Gun For “Protection “Or For Any Other Purpose, with the exception of target shooting. It was felt that while just being a little TOO HANDY for hot heads or in the heat of an argument; in normal everyday activity, they would just be in the way and could ,quite easily be the cause of accidents; not at all related to shootings. ~~Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan.