Several of the posters have said what they would do if the government came to confiscate their arms. But only one or two said anything about the consequences of a stance to their families. One thing that came apparent in Canada when the government polled rural people to ask about gun control was that there was a high proportion of rural wives who thought controlling weapons was a good thing. In the province of Alberta the government was very much against the federal gun registry, but they tempered their opposition when they saw what people felt. Of course, since that time the registry costs have ballooned to nearly $2 billion dollars, so the majority of people now recognize that the same amount of money could have been much more effectively spent fighting crime, suicide and accidents - the reasons the gun law supporters gave for needing the law