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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
First of all you're picking overall homicide rates and prorating them over an entire country... looking at the overall homide per capita over the entire country is a different thing. That's like picking chicago and extrapolating its murder rate to the rest of the united states.
the statistics for country per capita are easy to find.
Secondly, how many of those murders in Calgary and Edmonton were by guns? Not sure why the total murder rate is being used when the discussion point of this thread is about mass shootings.
i have zero issue with people owning rifles or guns (so long as they are properly regulated)... in fact, people in canada can even own AR style weapons if they want to (66K in fact) - they just have to go through the process of getting a restricted license.
there will never be a handgun ban in the US.... legislators can't even close a loophole about background checks.
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The point being that everyone is saying that the whole US is a terribly scary place to live when the country as a whole is about the same as Edmonton or Calgary in terms of likelihood to die by homicide of any kind.