Posted by OddipusRex on April 14, 2003, at 9:15:32
In reply to Bowling for Columbine, posted by mair on April 12, 2003, at 22:40:08
I found these statistics that showed Canadian firearms ownership in households was about half that of US households. The Canadian murder by firearm rate (per 100,000) was 0.6 compared to 6.9 in the US. The US had 11.5 times more murder by firearms. Total deaths by firearms(including accidents and suicides) were 2.9 times greater in US than in Canada.
Murder without guns was 1.6x more common in the US than Canada.
A quick look at other international gun ownership figure shows about 6 times higher gun ownership in Canada than Great Britain and about a 6 times greater murder rate as well.
Of course statistics don't tell everything and there are other factors like urban vs rural and poverty levels and living in pockets of the country (like some urban neighborhoods) where not having a gun could concievably make you MORE likely to be murdered.
http://www.research.ryerson.ca/SAFER-Net/Content/Contents/Focusing/Overview%20of%20Availability.htm
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