I am both an ar-15 owner and an ISSF national gold/silver medalist so please dont lump us all in the same boat. there are lots good people,and yes lots of retards in anything with that many members (there are just under 2 million people in Canada with a possession and acquisition licence
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/f.../index-eng.htm)
like anything else the idiots get noticed a lot more then the bulk of regular people.