If you were hiking around in the north, where there's a hell of a lot of large wildlife, you might have a different opinion.
I maintain that we don't actually have a gun problem, but instead have a gang problem, but I also feel that a certain level of basic controls is a good thing.
I remember the time when the gun laws first started to clamp down too. I was playing soccer at Clark Blvd. Public School, in Brampton, listening to my pocket AM radio. The news announcer came on and said that there had been a shooting at Brampton Centennial secondary school and that kids and teachers were dead. That was only a couple of miles away. Michael Slobodian had gone to school with a guitar case full of guns and the first person he killed was one of his friends, who walked in on him with the guns in a washroom. Immediately after that Parliament started debating increased regulations on gun ownership. That's generally how it works; incident, knee jerk "See, we're doing something!" action on the part of government. The laws that were passed likely wouldn't have stopped Slobodian from taking his father's guns to school, but they weren't outrageously unreasonable.
