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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Not true, in fact both murders by gun and suicides have more than doubled since then according to pew.
I guess if you watch Foxnews for your US news all day you would think the Canadian press were the only ones reporting gun problems in the US but every other news in the US reports it far more than we do.
Fact, no other nation in the world has their leading cause of death to school age children from guns, no other nation in the world has anything near the mass shootings and no other nation in the world have anything near the amount of guns on their streets. the USA is a nightmare. |
Murder rates by population are still significantly down since the 70s and 90s, even though they have spiked in the last couple years. The murder rate in the county I live in (~400,000 population) in Virginia is a little higher than Calgary and a little lower than Edmonton, so not really something that crosses my mind a whole lot.