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Canada had a mass shooting in 2020 in Nova Scotia where 23 people were murdered by a guy well known to the police.

The Wikipedia article only covers the major ones, but Canada has a mass shoot pretty regularly too. And if shooting scale by population, you'd expect the US to have 10x as many - all else being equal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shootings_in_Can...

Certainly NOT saying it's not a problem, but one needs to put things in perspective if you want to get to the root cause.




Counting articles on Wikipedia isn't exactly scientific. So let's go hard numbers:

US has 10X as many firearms deaths per capita compared to Canada, which implies 100X as absolute value.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2378037/gun-violence-by-the-numbe...


We’re talking mass shootings, not deaths which half are suicides.


Firearm homicide was 8X. It's in the same article.


I thought we were talking about mass shootings?

But murder rates are only 3x the US v Canada.

See the importance of the right statistics?

1000x more firearm deaths, but only 8x more firearm homicides but then 3x more murders.

I would definitely agree the US has a worse murder problem than Canada, but making is purely a gun problem misses the point. Do guns play a role? Sure.




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