From my perspective, this turns out to be another major difference between chasing in Canada and in the USA. Having chased here for several years, I haven't had a single moment where I thought my safety - due to another person - was at stake. Sure, gun laws are different here (we don't have anything like the Second Amendment; and people usually only own guns for hunting, not self-defense), but I also can't imagine being attacked by a random person like this in Canada, especially under these circumstances. I guess anything could theoretically happen anywhere, but this whole discussion is quite intriguing to me. If anything, the thought of chasing in the states in spring makes me slightly apprehensive, knowing so many people are armed...I wouldn't want to accidentally piss off the wrong person or something. The only people I see with guns holstered to their belts around here are cops!
