you're joking , right, to say people here don't have guns. I guess you never heard about the boxing day shootout downtown. Jane Creba , or about the shootings that happen around caribana each year.I won't speak for beamsville, but in Toronto, there's a lot of people carrying guns. And since its illegal to carry one here, its all the damn criminals that have them.
I know a guy in Jamaica that used to have the same philosophy of not believing in guns. He would always say "if someone is trying to rob you, just give it to them" or " if the guy knows you have a gun as well, they may just shoot you right away instead of robbing you"
All this changed when his wife's store got robbed and the guys ended up in a shootout with the security guards. There's no guarantee that a gun will help you in these situations , but I'd rather be firing back bullets instead of harsh words.