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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
A firearm is a tool as well and just like all tools, a subset of the population will misuse that tool. If you look at the 2013 numbers, vehicle fatalities were 10.345/100,000; firearm fatalities were 10.64/100,000. Almost identical. It goes down even further to 3.55/100,000 if you only count homicide.
Firearms have plenty of legal, recognized purposes. Hunting, target shooting, competition, self defense (yes, even in Canada) and collecting. All legal and all uses that occur more frequently than misuse.
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Like all tools though firearms have have their costs measured against their benefit to society, and guns, like fishing rods or pogo sticks, have no benefit at all to 97 percent of society, if you could take away every gun in Canada outside of the remote north it would have no effect what so ever.
Cars, while responsible for massively more deaths, are also absolutely indispensable to everyone in Canada, they deliver all our food, they enable us to live in the suburbs.
Without cars Canada would cease to function at all, where as only a handful of Canadians would even notice if every gun disappeared.