"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, "Canada's Copycat Killing: Gun ownership in Alberta
approaches U.S. levels", Globe and Mail, April 30, 1999, p. A-1.