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> In many households a firearm has one single purpose, which is to kill or maim (given that hunting is rare). Kill or maim criminal intruders (given that murde
by runjake 14y ago
> In many households a firearm has one single purpose, which is to kill or maim (given that hunting is rare).
Kill or maim criminal intruders (given that murderers are rare). I'm not sure where in Canada you are, but hunting is far from rare in Canada and most areas of the US.
- corresation 14y agobut hunting is far from rare in Canada 5% of Canadians hunt. That qualifies as pretty rare to me. I don't know what the percentage is in the US, but just gut feeling is that there's a wide gap between gun ownership and hunting.
- runjake 14y agoIt doesn't to me. You're factoring in all Canadians of all ages (newborn->elderly, men, women) in all areas. 1 in 20 of every single human being regardless of age/gender seems pretty common in context. If I were to perform the same sort of blanket percentage on Americans that actually watch baseball games regularly, I bet I'd reach a similar percentage. That doesn't mean that baseball fans are rare. A citation for your 5% figure would be nice, because it might contain some meaningful context to lay a better picture than it does by itself.
- corresation 14y ago5%, or 1/20, is the commonly reported figure - https://www.google.ca/search?q=percentage+of+canada+hunts https://www.google.ca/search?q=percentage+of+canada+hunts I live in the Toronto area, and around here the percentage is, unsurprisingly, incredibly low. Out of the thousands of people that I engage with, I know one other person who hunts.
- evan_ 14y agoThat's still 1,724,138 people.
- voidlogic 14y agoI'm not comfortable with the parent posters assumptions. I live in Wisconsin and last I heard 15% of residents hunt regularly. I'd estimate for every 5 people I know who have guns for hunting, one has a handgun. I don't personally know anyone who has a handgun and does not have guns for hunting.