Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Your own country disagrees with you

Between 2009 and 2013, there were over 56,000 gun homicides in the United States compared to 977 in Canada. That’s a huge margin, but Canada doesn’t measure up as well to its European peers. Compared to the rest of the world, Canada has the fourth-highest gun homicide rate, behind France, Germany and Italy. That’s not as good.
Even more concerning is the recent spike in gun violence in cities across Canada. The Zero Gun Violence Movement studied specific cities including Surrey, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax and found some shocking numbers. In Regina for example, there was a 93 per cent increase in violent offences involving guns on average over the past five years. Between 2015 and 2016, there was a 163 per cent increase in victims of firearm offences. That’s a huge increase over just one year.

https://www.theloop.ca/whats-state-gun-violence-canada/
First off, 'his country' doesn't disagree with him.

Second, the report you cited doesn't disagree with him either.

As per usual you conflate a variety of different things and draw conclusions not supported by your own evidence.

Look at homicides as the definitive statistic, they don't go under reported, you can use the same number year after year.

Your offenses above will include any instance in which a gun was present in any other crime, whether loaded or not, fired or not or pointed or not.

Yes numbers of shootings are up some, though well below all time highs, and vastly lower than U.S. levels on rate basis.

Be that as it may.....

You're not wrong to note that Edmonton has a much higher homicide/violent crime rate that Montreal or Toronto or Vancouver. Curiously, also true of small cities in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick and Manitoba too; and northern Ontario.........

Have you noticed the connection yet Richard? Because those statistics actually overlap with the highest legal rates of gun ownership in Canada.

One reason you will soon see laws toughened here.