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How many guns Canada has is irrelevant to how lethal forced is used when a gun isn’t present.
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I don't think that's true at all. Without question private gun ownership, and gun control laws correlate with police kill rates in the US. State by state and as a country the correlation is very strong. I can't find the chart now but police kill rates around the world are also correlated with private gun ownership. Canada has a lot of guns relative to the rest of the world. But we also have a massive spill over of guns and culture from the US. We also have been militarizing our police a la the US. I just think it's impossible to disassociate guns with police killings. You treat more situations as if there is a gun present when the possibility of more guns being present is real.