Talk:M92F SE/@comment-144.136.195.58-20140531042728/@comment-11356046-20140608171741

Candadian gun laws are restrictive compared to the US, but still allow the general populace access to firearms. Britain, Australia, and the major Asian countries more or less ban the general populace from gun ownership. Canada's laws on the global scale is relatively good, but still restrictive. Heck, Canada's gun laws sometimes are less restrictive compared to some US cities, namely Los Angeles and New York City and Washington DC.

The entire gun control thing is just politicians wanting to create a nanny state. They don't trust the average person with a tool. Bloomberg is the most infamous one. Ban large soft drinks for "the good of the public", ban drinking straws "for the interest of the public", ban styrafoam containers, ban ownership of tools, ban objects that could potentially be used as weapons like shovels and sharp knives, and of course ban all guns for "the interest of the public."