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dsgrue3 on 04 February 2013
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Michael-5 said:

That video is so biased.

A) Criminals will still keep weapons, and only law abiding citizens will follow the law? Aren't guns in the USA registered like in Canada? You go door to door and take away guns, or put individuals in jail. Also it's a slow process, don't ban all guns at once, start at semi automatics.

If it's already too dangerous to take semi autos from registered owners, USA has some big issues, gun related.

B) Mass Murders by young individuals - Happens too much in the USA. That video counters this by mentioning a cop who used a gun correctly? Obviously Gun should carry guns, that's a silly counter.

C) Violent Video Games - Yup, Canada, much lower homicide rate

D) USA is more violent - It is, statistically, USA is among the most violent country out of all the developed countries. Your video counters this by mentioning Mexico, but again, how hard is it to smuggle a gun into Mexico? Just because guns are banned, doesn't mean they don't find their way into the country.

D-II) LOL He mentions a Mass shooting in Germany. Like I said, a gun ban won't solve everything, you need to stop guns from comming into the country. Gemrnay has a free boarder, so just like in USA, people can easily bring in a gun from another country....illegally.

E) - Removing Guns = less violence? Not right away, I agree with your video, China is a good example, but mass stabbing result in less murders then mass murders.

Anyway, I watched 7 minutes of the video, it's arguing a different point them me. I'm talking about banning guns, and making it difficult to import weapons. What's the point of banning guns if people can still smuggle them in?

This is why Canada has never had a mass shooting, and never will (unless an American smuggles a gun into the country and does this himself). This is why our homicide rate is that much lower.

A) - Criminals use unregistered weapons, often times you hear of serial numbers being removed (to idenfity registration).

B) - Too much, maybe, but what is your point? This is about if taking away guns will help so this is quite obsolete.

C) - Don't follow, obsolete as well.

D) Violence

Rape (per 100,000)

# 1     France: 10,277   2009 
# 2     Germany: 7,292   2009 
# 3     Russia: 6,208   2009 
# 4     Sweden: 4,901   2009 
# 5     Argentina: 3,276   2008 
# 6     Belgium: 2,786   2009 
# 7     Philippines: 2,585   2009 
# 8     Spain: 2,437   2009 
# 9     Chile: 2,233   2009 
# 10     Lesotho: 1,878   2009   
# 12     Japan: 1,582   2009 
# 13     New Zealand: 1,308   2009   
# 23     Canada: 491   2009   
# 43     Australia: 91.6   2003 

# 57     United States: 30.2   2006   

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Assault Victims:

# 1     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 3% 
# 2     United Kingdom: 2.8% 
= 3     New Zealand: 2.4% 
= 3     Australia: 2.4% 
# 5     Canada: 2.3% 
# 6     Finland: 2.1% 
= 7     France: 1.4% 
= 7     Denmark: 1.4% 
= 9     Sweden: 1.2% 
= 9     United States: 1.2% 

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Assault Crime (per 100,000):

# 1     Swaziland: 1,308.2   2004 
# 2     South Africa: 1,188   2002 
# 3     Mauritius: 1,044.9   2006 
# 4     Sweden: 845.2   2006 
# 5     New Zealand: 839.4   2006 
# 6     Australia: 797   2003 
# 7     United States: 786.7   1999 
# 8     Zimbabwe: 765.1   2004 
# 9     Israel: 763.3   2004 
# 10     Canada: 737.5   2006 

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D-II) Not sure what your point is. His point was mass shootings happen elsewhere when gun laws are stricter or completely banned.

E) Removing guns stops violence? No. Homicide? Let's see:

Notice the blue line is gun ownership rate, so one would expect to see decreased homicide rate (red dotted line) with the decreased gun ownership rate. We simply do not see such a trend.

F) No Canada Mass Shootings:

  • In the 1989 massacre of 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Marc Lepine used a Ruger Mini-14 rifle, at the time equipped with a substantial magazine.
  • And in 2006, Kimveer Gill used a Beretta Cx4 Storm to shoot 72 rounds at Montreal’s Dawson College, injuring 16 and killing student Anastasia DeSousa.

And that took about 5 seconds to google "Canada Mass Shootings".

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Final thoughts: 

It's good to debate these things, but not when you bring nothing factual to the table. Next time do some research so someone doesn't make you into a fool.