Americans Should Be Happy That We Have a Constitution ...

...and a Bill of Rights, although there are those who are attempting to make them null and void.

Under the gun: The burden of being a gun owner in Canada

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Canadians have to go through that lengthy process to get a gun, however they still aren't in the clear to carry or use it...

...Joel leaves his home in a suburb just north of Toronto with a black duffle bag in hand. His 40-caliber Glock is in the bag, which he puts in his car. Joel can't just put the gun in his pocket and go to the range. There are very particular rules.

His gun has to be unloaded, trigger locked, locked in an opaque case, and the ammo is separate in its own locked compartment...

...He goes up to the counter to buy a box of ammo. Canadian law requires Joel to show the clerk his firearms license. Without it, Joel can't buy ammunition.

“[This] is an example of the kind of additional, thank you so much, paperwork I have to carry around,” he said.

The registration for his particular gun, and something called an ATT. “This is an authorization to transport a restricted or prohibited handgun and it allows me to take handguns from my house to my range, period. And from my range to my house, period.”...

...But Tony says the debate in Canada isn't always governed by reason.

He says politicians often have knee-jerk reactions to violent incidents and they push gun legislation not because it makes sense, but because gun control is an easy sell in Canada and it makes them look good.

“It's like a piece of pie and every time you take a slice of the piece of pie it gets smaller and that's what politicians do. They start, they start nibbling away at it. They take this little thing away from you, they take this little thing away from you and next thing you know there's nothing left of it,” Tony said. “That's why in the U.S. and I agree with them in the U.S. that's why, the NRA is opposed to anything and I agree with them a hundred percent on that.”