Re: Ove Interest?

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:59:57 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 2/17/2025 2:20 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 2/17/2025 11:43 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

>
Opportunity is certainly seems to have a effect, on the
whole places with
restrictions on weapons have less use of them, it’s
certainly not a hard
concept to understand or equally can see it around the world.

 
:-)  "Places with restrictions on weapons have less use of
them" is _very_ hard for some people to understand!
 

This said your neighbours to the North who seem to have
very broadly
similar set in terms of general set up, seem to do much
less killing of
each other so unlikely Frank I’m unconvinced it’s the
whole thing, clearly
if one has less access but unless I’m mistaken the
Canadian have guns maybe
not as many but guns are about but they don’t have the
levels of gun
violence that the US does.

 
Canadians average about 37 guns per 100 citizens. Americans
average about 120 guns per 100 citizens. And Canada
restricts gun types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Firearms_regulation_in_Canada
 
Yes, some people in both nations are hunters, farmers, etc.
with rational and practical reasons for owning guns. Some
are target shooting hobbyists. But the U.S. dominates in the
number of people who are so afraid that they feel they
_must_ have a gun for "protection."
 
Despite the paucity of guns intended for "protection,"
Canadians don't seem to suffer from hordes of bad guys
beating down front doors of homes. And I've not read of
Canadian bike path users suffering from vicious attacks -
although I suppose anything is possible!
 
 

>
Not only Canada vs US for numbers.
>
Speaking of cultural differences, Wisconsin has about
average (among US States) firearms regulation with 6 million
humans and about 315 firearm homicides per year.
>
City of Chicago, with among the most restrictive regulation
in the country (even yet, in defiance of a specific Supreme
Court ruling) is 2,665,000 people and suffers 550~650
firearm homicides per year.

I believe that many times simply showing that you have a gun will
deter a crime. That's a defensive incident that's not likely to get
reported. I suspect that the guy who attacked me would not have done
so if I'd shown him my gun.

--
C'est bon
Soloman