[Flashpoint]

I'm perhaps qualified to discuss the difference between Canadians and Americans. I grew up around Calgary for 23 years, lived in Vancouver for 3 more, and moved to Dallas 10 years ago. I married an American who comes from a spread out family with relatives here in Texas, in upstate NY, and out on the Californian coast.

They are smart, sweet, loving people, who would help you up if you needed it. They suffer from living in a country with privatized health care which will bleed you dry if you don't have insurance, and a radical NRA lobby group that is less numerous but more vocal than atheists in this country.

The vast majority could live right next door to you, and other than accents, you'd have no idea they were American. Even if they were dicks.

I expect this will ultimately be the "Dunblane Scotland" moment for this country. In England firearms were largely banned after a man killed a bunch of school kids. There was some debate, and some resistance. There was a TV ad where Sean Connery donated his voice that went to this effect:

"Gun advocates say that banning handguns will deprive them of security, and the joy of sport shooting."

"Would that be more or less joy than watching your child grow up?"

Sorry, I can't find a youtube.

It pretty much sealed the deal from what I've heard. When you frame it in those terms, the "gun nut" minority is about to be pushed off their hill.

It's not a person problem. It's a gun problem.