When you are still sort of 'British'

I am very much not for a complete ban on private firearms and gun ownership, instead favouring reasonable government regulation; but this image makes me laugh inside.

Yes, for the most part, I would deduce, we in Canada that are still 'British' sort of, remaining in the Commonwealth, are pleased to have remained loyal to the Crown.

Canada never had a revolution.

Culturally, we are in many ways more American influenced than British influenced, due to American pop culture which dominates the world.

I have dual passports with Canada and the United Kingdom, and was educated in England/Wales at the end, so I am more British than American, but I am not the typical Canadian in that way.

The United States of America is in many contexts the greatest economy on the planet, and is the greatest military on the planet. But just for balance, we have liberty and democracy in Canada too. Now, this needs to more so, be pondered on, as opposed to simply emotionally reacted to.

There would be a PhD thesis level debate to determine in many contexts which western nation is more free than another. Based on my limited, non-exhaustive reading on the subject of western liberty, there is no definite and definitive, 'freest' nation.

A Mennonite bible school professor of mine stated that (paraphrased) each nation has a mythology. This includes the United States, Canada and United Kingdom.

I do very much enjoy the larger market, economy and availability of product in the United States of America, compared to Canada, but it is a much larger population than Canada. I also enjoy the lager market, economy and availability of product that can be found in Western Europe compared to Canada as well, which is also has a much larger population than Canada.

I am not ignorant that when I visit the United States and United Kingdom, Canada is rather secondary in importance in most contexts.

By the way, I do not own a firearm or gun. I do own 'martial arts' related weaponry for training.