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Comparing US to Canada is asinine. Canada has extremely low population density in all cities and population of 1/10th of US. US also has the third-highest popu

Comparing US to Canada is asinine. Canada has extremely low population density in all cities and population of 1/10th of US. US also has the third-highest population in the world. Look at the population density of the 10 highest dense municipalities in Canada (highest is 5,492.6 people per square kilometre in Vancouver, B.C.): https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/170208/t001a-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/170208/t001a... Now compare it to USA. Top 50 cities amongst them all are ALL signifiantly higher than the Canadian numbers. New York City alone is 10,431.1 people per square kilometre, San Francisco is 6,658.9, Boston is 5,143.4): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... Canada also doesn't share borders with cartels nor do they have a gang problem like places like Chicago, Baltimore etc do. Considering these factors, the 420+ million guns in US are pretty safe for vast majority. As someone pointed out "The Chicago MSA is just under 3% of the US population, and about 25% of the shootings." EDIT: Why the downvotes? Do people really think comparing 2 countries with completely different population density and borders is a valid comparison?

simonh 5y ago
Where do you think the US, or significant parts of it with high gun violence rates should be compared to?
- injb 5y ago
  Why should the whole country be compared to anywhere though? The idea (implicitly) is that it gives you a sense of what it's like to live in the US. But no one lives in the whole country. People live in a particular area, usually one state (out of 50). Even then, most people's lives are largely limited to one or two counties. The reason that most Americans are not concerned with this kind of thing is that the vast majority of them are not exposed to this violence at all. For most Americans, life is extremely safe and peaceful.
  - simonh 5y ago
    Perhaps you missed the part of my post where I said "or significant parts of it with high gun violence rates".
walkedaway 5y ago
You're getting downvotes because you are posting facts. That's a pattern on HN. People don't like your facts, so they downvote to try and get it to disappear.

simonh 5y ago

Where do you think the US, or significant parts of it with high gun violence rates should be compared to?

injb 5y ago
Why should the whole country be compared to anywhere though? The idea (implicitly) is that it gives you a sense of what it's like to live in the US. But no one lives in the whole country. People live in a particular area, usually one state (out of 50). Even then, most people's lives are largely limited to one or two counties. The reason that most Americans are not concerned with this kind of thing is that the vast majority of them are not exposed to this violence at all. For most Americans, life is extremely safe and peaceful.
- simonh 5y ago
  Perhaps you missed the part of my post where I said "or significant parts of it with high gun violence rates".

walkedaway 5y ago

You're getting downvotes because you are posting facts. That's a pattern on HN. People don't like your facts, so they downvote to try and get it to disappear.