Canada certainly had numerous Indian tribes, they just weren't so quick to slaughter them I suppose.

The English in Canada would probably have simply ordered them to behave and the French wouldn't have noticed whether they did or not.

But a better comparison would be between the US and the UK, where ordinary citizens neither have, nor want, guns.

Although gun crime has increased with the influx of drugs and drug dealers, it is still probably true that we have fewer murders (of all types) nationally each year than New York or San Francisco.

Also, we have proportionately, many fewer cops killed on duty.

When the idea of arming our police came under review, the vast majority of the public were dead set against it, with the result that only a few specially trained officers have guns.

This also means that there are many fewer mistakes made in the UK, though the only acceptable number would be zero, which is virtually impossible with human beings.

Don T.