Thank you Marty for an enlightening exchange

First off I understand completely how having all that killing going on around you becomes matter of fact.....though it happens more than just every weekend. Nashville today was just one of two so far....5 reported injured in Milwaukee ....which is about the avaerage for March so far....(found here if interest...found it only to find out what the rate was)
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?page=1

We can agree it is unlikely that the constitution will be amended, certainly within the next x generations with a majority conservative viewpoint toward US constitution. So that this then become a self defense NEED|SAFETY REQUIREMENT need for its citizens ....is a viewpoint I have not lived and have no experience in and I totally cede to it. Total reality for you. Tragic too that it becomes\became that way. Perhaps an unintended consequence of the founding father's vision of that amendment that can probably be be traced to them not knowing where mankind's wonderful mind ....that can ask such big questions of the wonderful world and universe around us, and to the mind and minds that through successive generations and iterations ask and follow questions towards the improvements in the manufacture of arms, and to the art and industry of killing, so that you have the need the live as you do.

As for solutions we can agree on? Unlikely simply because we face different conditions and have different forms of government. I simply hope for your safety because I personally know you. As you correctly point out everyone else is a statistic that happens on (we now know more than just) weekends.

Also hope things that you think may work for Texas are enacted.

as for the additionally......

yes we are incredibly fortunate....incidents and accidents in and of geography. Totally agree.

We are a modern North American nation, a Parliamentary Democracy with a British tradition, with a growing recognition of the land here and time before Canada became what has become The Great White North, or just simply, The North.

Together, the USA and Canada, have shared the northern half of the Western Hemisphere since founding nations on earlier inhabited lands, and have independent histories with.......with among other differences .... wars against nations dependent on independent strategic interests and Canada has real and independent relationships with countries even as we share levels of interest. You statement about your interest in Canada proves the point ....we're simply part of your background....unimportand and unnoticed and unoffe3nsive until we blur it or shake it up. That you see the need to have such a large army is not historically in order to provide a benefit to Canada. And who exactly are you protecting us from???

And our Libtard policies work for the cultural and historical and political reasons we can talk about ....but they would simply not work for you for cultural and historical and political reasons, plus what you call Libtard policy is very
much something that would also have to be clarified....like what makes you say "I've watched liberal policies erode my nation for an entire lifetime, beginning with the undoing of the educational system"

So that is yet unclear to me because I have no context to evaluate "what policies eroded what" and "beginning with the undoing of the educational system"....again ...no context of before and after.....

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop