When I was on Cyprus the first thing I needed to get used to was teenagers with automatic weapons.
At the airport there's local police, all with machine pistols walking around looking nervous.
Once I got to Nicosia (the world's only remaining divided capital) I had to get used to the Cypriot military's teenagers walking around with automatic rifles and the Argentinian peacekeepers driving around in jeeps with M16s and rocket launchers.
If I went to the north end of town to get ice cream, the Turkish soldiers would stare at you from across a 40 foot no man's land.
I also approached the Israeli embassy when I was site-seeing and forgot I had my backpack on. The result was having 5 soldiers pointing their M16s at me and shouting.
So yeah, once nice thing in Canada is that aside from SWAT the only guns I see are 9mm.