Canada doesn't need to pick either of these extremes. Most of Europe used to not have this problem until they had an influx of people in desperate conditions. Small towns in the US didn't need to pick between these extremes (most people never locked their doors) until recently. Somehow it used to work. Rather than asking what broke we'd rather apply a bandaid fix to the most obvious issue.
It just seems bizarre that the same people who rightly call out a "let's ban all guns forever" type of knee-jerk reaction have knee-jerk reactions of their own when it favors their biases. Security good, welfare bad. Experience from other places could never work here. Never look at the broader picture, if someone tries to then they are changing the subject.