"Jim Creechan, a University of Alberta sociologist,
said some of the love of guns may have its roots in
Alberta's pervasive free-enterprise model of behaviour.
'It's the whole idea that the individual
is more important than the collective.'"
-- Alanna Mitchell Source: "Canada's Copycat Killing: 
Gun ownership in Alberta approaches U.S. levels", Globe and Mail, April 30, 1999, p. A-1.
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