You are right – Canada’s gun laws are dumb as fuck.
I will take our murder rate over yours.
I will take our murder rate over yours.
You have less people in your entire country than we have in California. So, yeah, that’s comparable.
You’re cute, little brother.
Murder rate not total murders.
I will take our murder rate over yours.
There’s too many people on earth. We’re doing something about it here.
So a guy, presumably a professional pilot, accidentally forgot to check his firearm OR was allowed to transport it during his flight, and canada has charged him with multiple criminal acts. That’s really getting the bad guys off the streets. Sounds like an innocent mistake.
If you want to find a gun story to rant about you could easily have pointed to the fort hood murders of today. Little but more aggregious than thus story.
What’s “dumb as fuck”?
The fact that he’s not allowed to have a gun with him?
Yes, I agree that is dumb as fuck.
Murder rate not total murders.
Yep, let’s keep comparing the giant to something the size of its nut sack. Any other statistics you want to compare?
Yeah. US man violates our laws, and you call our laws dumb as fuck. Why can’t this guy just obey the law of the land he’s in? It ain’t rocket surgery.
Also, do you just get this tingling sensation behind your ear every time a gun related thread is posted in the LR?
And lastly: look. I really like the USA. You guys have a lot of cool things going for you. Your Netflix is way better. Booze is cheaper. And hockey hasn’t caught on to the fucking awesomeness that is tailgating. But don’t start with that “we are safer then you” bullshit. It’s not true no matter how you try to spin it.
You have less people in your entire country than we have in California. So, yeah, that’s comparable.
Of course the murder rate is comparable (size doesn’t really matter), you just have to make a fair comparison. Canada’s murder rate (2012) was 1.6 per 100,000, while the US rate was 4.8 (Mexico was ~24). OTOH, the U.S. homicide rate is much lower in many of the northern states, and much higher in the deep South (Minnesota, Massachusetts, Idaho and Maine rates are 1.8, while lots of states are over 6). Must be related to the temperature…?
(As an aside, I hate overly simplistic comparisons, as well as blanket refusal to make any comparisons. They’re both sloppy)
You are as safe as Minnesota and about the same population. Bully for you. Yeah Canada!
I am surprised I made it out of NYC alive this week.
That tingling sensation you mentioned was my bullshit meter. Yeah, it is highly tuned.
I am willing to compare Canada to Minnesota. Pretty much the same.
If you think murder rate isn’t related to size, you don’t know how to read and apply murder rate.
Why is it not ok to have a law that reflects the will of people in that country? How hard is it to not bring a gun to a country that doesn’t allow them.
That fact that the population want a particular law does not make it any less foolish. The will of the people should be followed, no matter how ignorant.
If you think murder rate isn’t related to size, you don’t know how to read and apply murder rate.
Please teach me. Murder rate is murders per 100,000, and murder rates are most highly dependent on a host of social issues unrelated to population. Are are talking about population density? Gemany has a murder rate of 0.8 (densely populated with over 80 million people). Please explain what you mean.
I am willing to compare Canada to Minnesota. Pretty much the same.
We Minnesotans feel the same about comparing Iowa and Wisconsin… no offense to Iowa.
If you think murder rate isn’t related to size, you don’t know how to read and apply murder rate.
Please teach me. Are talking about population density? Gemany has a murder rate of 0.8 (over 80 million people). Please explain what you mean.
The larger the population, the more diverse, the more likelihood of poverty, the more chance of population density, all the things that lead to crime. More people, greater chance of crime. As you mentioned, if you look state by state, the rate is all over the board.
Compare Canada to MInnesota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, South Dakota and the rates match. There is a correlation there.
I am willing to compare Canada to Minnesota. Pretty much the same.
We Minnesotans feel the same about comparing Iowa and Wisconsin… no offense to Iowa.
We gave you Brett Favre.
Suckers.
“You have less people in your entire country than we have in California. So, yeah, that’s comparable.”
Guess you don’t understand this thing called percentage?
You can’t win this argument bubba, not even with a lawyer spin. Less % guns equals less % gun homicide. End of story.