Re: Ove Interest?

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:20:06 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> 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.

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

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Canadians average about 37 guns per 100 citizens. Americans average
about 120 guns per 100 citizens.

nope...

And Canada restricts gun types.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Canada
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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."
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Despite the paucity of guns intended for "protection,"

Many, many, perhaps most guns are guns intended for protection.

Canadians don't
seem to suffer from hordes of bad guys beating down front doors of
homes.

That's a strawman.... typical Krygowski argument

And I've not read of Canadian bike path users suffering from
vicious attacks - although I suppose anything is possible!

It only takes one...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/he-was-just-so-angry-female-victim-speaks-of-random-attack/ar-BB1pu99E

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C'est bon
Soloman