Sure. I have never said that gun control is not a problem. Mass shootings happen and it's a shame. However, in a sense, I don't feel secure in Toronto. Can explain why. In the mid-December, I saw a homeless guy attacking a woman. He just punched her in the face and kept walking as she was bleeding. I saw cops and approached them and they said that because it's not their jurisdiction, I have to call 911. I did. By the time the dispatcher got my call, the guy just disappeared. This doesn't excuse the mass access to guns. I just want to point out that whoever wants to get a gun will be able to do so in Canada as well. Black market exists here as well.
Look let me put it in this way.
There are tiers of public security.
Top tier is perhaps Japan. No violent crime usually and there is police behind every god damned telephone pole. They are also fire arm averse. And a lot of them do not carry firearms in usual policing.
Now when it comes to Canada and USA, their police departments are actually under-resourced for policing. So, they actually do not investigate a lot of complains they recieve. I heard in SF they do not even try to investigate car theft these days because they are so innudated in cases. In BC, crime against women are ignored from what I hear. If you have a creep living in your building and acting creep, police is likely to do very little. This mess is everywhere in NA.
Firearms in public adds a new challenge. It makes police worried about their own safety. And guess who they suspect the most? Us immigrants. You don't look "american", you are more suspect. You dont sound american, you are more suspect. Our risk profile as immigrants is not usual look-american sound-american profile. Black folks have worst risk profile and I suspect, we might be similar.
I was flagpoling at Peace Arch for my WP in 2019. I had to go to US side and cross back to Canada. I had no personal vehicle so I went on foot. I approched border post, kept my passport in hand, clearly visible and both hand clearly visible. Damn border police folks always have one hand on their weapon.