Re: Banning it so it must be popular
Oi! The US declared war on us in 1812. You started that one, and then tried (incredibly unsuccessfully) to invade Canada.
Obviously the bit where the Royal Navy were interdicting US merchant shipping to France, and even stopped a couple of US warships to search them for supposedly escaped RN crew, had nothing at all to do with it...
Don't blame us for the fact that you've written it into your constitution, that there's a right to arm bears.