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Originally Posted by GGG
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...ce-of-canadas/
Data is limited.
Police forces state 50% in Western Canada and 30% in Canada are domestically sourced guns. Gun Suicides in general are carried out with legal guns.
Both will be subject to the substitution affect so banning will increase illegal use in homicides and other methods of suicides will be used. Also there is consideration for whether or not a gun in the home increasing risk of suicide is personal choice or public health issue.
You are looking at affecting with a hand gun band somewhere in the 75 Homicides a year range and 300 or so suicides. (Somewhere between 40-50% of suicides by gun are handguns)
The statement that a handgun ban will have no affect is highly likely to be false. I would agree with you if you were talking about the scary weapon ban.
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are you sure these aren't the stats that were debunked?
Criminals are going to stop getting guns from the states because there's a ban? We've been through this. Criminals do not follow laws or bans.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gun...tics-1.4779702
They don't have evidence to back the "domestically sourced? conclusion.