LOL, this link supports your claim about gun ownership rate vs. homicide rate.
http://www.objectobot.com/?p=476
The article finishes with "In other news scientists can’t figure out how Canadians watch movies and play videos games, and manage not to shoot each other.."
From the perspective of a Canadian, I just see no reason why handguns should be legal here. Homicide rates are really low here compared to the USA. Manhattan has an average of about 2,000 homicides annually for a population of 8 million people. Toronto's average, our closest city to New York both geographically and by population, is about 50-100 homicides for a population of 6 million. Windsor and Detroit are across Lake Erie from each other, clearly visible from the other, and yet Windors Homicide rate is less then 10% of Detroits per capita.
So In Canada, we don't need handguns for protection. I believe it's a negative thing to be able to own a handgun here because the vast majority of people here don't, and you would likely be the instigator to a Firefight if you had one, probably resulting in more deaths then less by owning one.
I guess in USA it's just different. So many people own guns there, that it's become the normal to see a gun in the house. Here, it's just unheard of (except for hunting, aka Rifles). There are 88 guns per 100 people in the USA, and that's just scary. Personally I think you guys are far too desensitized to this stuff.
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