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Canada probably has higher gun ownership per capita than the US and gun crime is very low.

• ceilingcorner 6y ago
  Switzerland too.
• newacct583 6y ago
  It does not. The US has far more guns. But Canada has significantly more guns than other similar western democracies. And, in fact, Canada has an intermediate level of gun violence between the extremes of the US wild west and totalitarian Europe! It's almost like, as I said above, the clearly obvious determining factor in gun violence is the simple number of weapons. That this obvious hypothesis is simply disbelieved by large numbers of HN posters (many of whom like to call themselves "rationalists") continues to astound me.
  • brailsafe 6y ago
    Most of the gun owners I know here also tend to just have hunting rifles or stuff they take to the range.
  • zepto 6y ago
    > the clearly obvious determining factor in gun violence is the simple number of weapons Except that this simply is not true. Gun violence in the us is not correlated with gun ownership. It is correlated with poverty. It’s as simple as that. This is because ‘gun violence’ is just violence. Calling it ‘gun violence’ makes it seem like it’s about guns, but it really isn’t.
• milkrocks 6y ago
  Less minorities too...