America is the most freedomist nation on Earth, based on the number of civilians who give up their lives to the pursuit of gun-based liberty every year. Other less freedomist nations, like Canada, couldn't even hope to be as freedomist as we are.

Before the freeze, a Canadian looking to buy a handgun had to complete a safety course, take multiple tests, prove their status as a collector or shooting range patron, provide the approval or contact information of every partner they’d lived with in the last two years, apply and wait at least 28 days for a firearms permit, complete an extensive background check, and register their handgun with the police. The American process varies by state, but at minimum a prospective handgun purchaser must be 21, provide a driver’s licence, and complete a simple background check that can be processed in 10 minutes. If you don’t have the patience or acceptable personal history for the three-page document, background checks are not required of gun show purchases. Canada, in short, is far better than our neighbours at keeping legal firearms out of the hands of 4chan-addled neo-Nazis.

It's estimated that America owns 393 million freedom fire-sticks, about 120 freedoms per person, almost twice as much per person as any other nation.

La Ronge’s crime wave has come amid a historic increase of US semiautomatic firearm shipments to Canada, part of a push by American manufacturers over the last 20 years to export guns into private hands around the world. Weapons flowed to Canada, Guatemala, Thailand and elsewhere as the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation primed markets by stoking opposition to gun control. Gun companies had help from the US government, which has used the Commerce Department and embassies to recruit buyers.
The impact on Canada has been profound as new types of weapons began coming north. With a centuries-old gun culture but little firearm manufacturing of its own, Canada has long been the largest importer of US hunting rifles and has been ranked second only to the US among developed countries in guns per capita. In recent years, though, the number of semiautomatic pistols and assault rifles coming from the US each year has skyrocketed — from just 6,205 in 2003 to more than 66,000 in 2022. While those numbers are a small fraction of US domestic sales, in per capita terms Canada is now the biggest foreign buyer of American rapid-fire weapons.

Freedom-related crimes have increased 7-fold in Canada and 35-fold in Saskatchewan since 2003.

Those measures have galvanized a growing pro-gun movement that has adopted political tactics pioneered in the US. Its proponents argue that the crime surge stems from weapons smuggled from the US and that legal guns play little role.

“By definition, criminals break the law — a new law won’t change that,” Pierre Poilievre, leader of the pro-firearm Conservative Party, told a gun group at a dinner called “Stick to Your Guns” last year. “Border-based gun smuggling” is the real problem, he said.

I don't understand why the NRA isn't bragging about all the freedom that they've brought to Mexico, where most people celebrating their liberty by being murdered with American guns.