Frankly, I think we'd all be a lot safer if no one owned guns. Not because I'm afraid of the people I know who own guns. The gun owners I know are responsible and law-abiding. I have known a couple of hunters who like to combine their activities with alcohol, but as I don't hunt with them, they're no danger to me. No, my objection to guns is more general than specific.
Guns are, by definition, dangerous.
Accidents happen, arguments happen, and there's always the criminal element. If there are less guns, it seems to me there must be less of these problems. But that's easy for me to say, since I don't own a gun and don't want to. According to the Canadian Firearms Centre, which administers the new Firearms Act, there are 2.2 million Canadians who do own guns and three quarters of them have registered their weapons. Which leads Ottawa to suggest that most gun owners accept the new law.