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Old 12-16-2012, 07:11 AM  
Grapesoda
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Originally Posted by jigga View Post
Yeah, and if you add up all the dead in all those shootings it comes up to around 25 total. In all the incidents. Combined. And it would be around 10 if it wasn't for that Polytechnique incident which resulted in by far the largest body count. And surprise, surprise, it involved a semi-automatic weapon. Weapons that are banned out here now and for which there is no justification for a citizen to own.

So what's your point? That shit happens in countries with tighter gun laws?

Guns aren't illegal in Canada. I wish there were and then many of those shootings you listed above wouldn't have happened.

Look at the UK. Citizens are banned from owning firearms and the gun-related homicide rate per 100k is one of the lowest in the world (UK is 0.04, US is 74x higher at 2.98). More guns is not the way to stop gun violence, it's an absolutely absurd way of thinking, in my opinion.
great stuff: FYI, the cat is out of the bag with guns... they aren't going away
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