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Originally Posted by Mike Vernon
This just happened in Toronto, with 10% the population of the USA I would think that would make the odds higher it would happen here again???
Nothing bad happens in Canada though, just ask the guy who had his head cut off in a Greyhound bus. Maybe we need knife control too. Start a knife registry.
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The Toronto shooting is the only rampage shooting that I can think of that took place in Canada. As for the Greyhound incident do really want to compare individual murder stats too?
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Hmm, fun with percents! But if it happens in Canada, it is 1000% more likely to be you  so I'm glad I'm here!
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.UMeBqGt5mSM
So doing some rough math, it looks like on average 35,000 people die in car wrecks every year vs an average of 10 in mass shootings. So to completely eliminate mass shootings would save the same number of lives as reducing .029% of traffic deaths. Which sounds more cost effective and practical? Heck, putting up a few traffic lights and a couple guard rails would save more lives than putting up checks tops and metal detectors in every public venue. |
Yeah while we're at it, why not say "screw it" to any other safety measures the government puts in place.
Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the world. We should take all the money we spend on cops, firefighters, metal detactors, seat belts...etc and put at all towards finding a cure for heart disease.