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The United States declared their independence in the midst of a brutal war against one of the world’s most powerful empires.

Canada, by contrast, peacefully inaugurated their founding documents after kindly asking for permission.

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And yet, in sharp contrast to the United States’ usual reputation as the more violent one, the men who founded Canada ended up being much more likely to meet their end with a bullet.

Two of Canada’s 37 Fathers of Confederation suffered untimely deaths by bullet wounds.

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, meanwhile, gun violence would claim only one.

In fact, despite all the “give me liberty or give me death” talk, the vast majority of U.S. Founding Fathers would be meet their end by dying peacefully on vast estates — a surprising number of them in their 80s and 90s.

Only Georgia delegate Button Gwinnett, widely considered to be the most unremarkable signatory to the 1776 declaration, would get himself shot only a few months later in a duel with a political rival.