Uh, just a piece of information.... In lot's of cities in America downtown is safe for the most part I can walk around downtown Chicago at 3 am with no problems. I live in West Chicago and I hear gun shots occasionally because 5 blocks down the road it's the "hood" and heavily gang affiliated. West Chicago is full of Hispanic gangs and most of them are "illegal". South Chicago is a lot more ghetto than the West side and there are countless murders, robbery's, assaults, and rapes down there. If you lived in South Chicago, you'd wanna own a gun I guarantee it. You know nothing about (hood politics) you don't know exactly what goes on in the cyfe, you just know what goes on from watching movies and the news. The only way to know about (hood politics) is to live around it yourself. I've seen a woman get raped when I was driving through South Chicago and I've seen at least 4 drive-bys in my life. Have you ever seen this in you're city? I think no. South side is like Detroit, I've been to Detroit and I noticed no difference. Just visit South Chicago for a day or so and see if you wanna get out without 2 minutes.. It's 97% African American and they kill other races.
So yes, I have a very good reasoning of owning a gun. Chicago is different than whatever city you live in in Canada and probably more gang affiliated. Chicago's safe compared to some cities but dangerous to compared to other cities. Just because one cities safe doesn't mean another ones safe. But I doubt that makes any sense to you because you seem to not understand anything I say when other are beginning to.
Actually, visit East St. Louis get out of your car and walk around, if you survive let me know how it goes. Once you do that, you'll realize the dangers of different cities. You're guaranteed to get attacked for walking through East St. Louis and the murder rate is sky high. Someone would get murdered there and cops wont even show up because it's so often and they're scared of showing up there.
You don't know ghetto, but me, I know ghetto. Because I practically live in the ghetto.