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Originally Posted by mr dave
this is false. a simple google search will prove otherwise. citing the juristat (a canadian provider of justice related statistics) and FBI as of 2002 there were 1000 incidents of violent crime in canada per 100 000 citizens as compared to roughly 500 in the US.
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Keep in mind "violent crime" is far broader a category than gun crime. I still can't link anything but when statistics are compared using homicides committed where guns were used it is not even close. Canada about 32% of homicides involved guns, U.S. 65%. Overall homicide rate in U.S. around 6 per 100,000 vs. around 1 per 100,000 in Canada. Just because Canada's statistics on violent crime are better does not necessarily tell us that it is because of their gun laws. Establishing causality is extremely difficult.