Guys, I totally understand your point. Happy to see you have your own good reasons to carry a firearm and can act responsibly with it.
Though, I think we should all ask ourselves why carrying a gun is considered "normal" and why the violence has increased so much in the past years.
I don'twant to compare Canada and USA, because there are lots of differences and also lots of similarities between both countries, but most of us don't see the necessity to protect ourselves with a gun. If everybody replies to an act of violence with violence, where will be the limit ?
More firearms = more chances that a freako will use one to do whatever he wants.
On the other hand, we have really strong firearms regulations and it's not perfect either. Just have to look at what happened at Dawson's College 2 weeks ago...