What is it with these Americans? They're always shooting each other at shopping centres or schools? Are they so estranged and alienated that they have little to no shared humanity?
Sick bastards. roll
Yeah that would never happen in Canada. Say last September.....
http//www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060913/montreal_shooting_060913/20060913?hub=TopStories
A gunman with a Mohawk haircut and black clothing opened fire inside Montreal's Dawson College on Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding 19 others.
A gunman with a Mohawk haircut and black clothing opened fire inside Montreal's Dawson College on Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding 19 others.
It wasn't me.
/can anyone say Michael Ryan?
//guns don't kill people, people kill people
Americans with guns eh?
Gun crime is hard to measure really, as much as I would like to see guns band or controlled more, comparing gun crime in the Uk has not really dropped considering a total ban.
Yea can never account for the serious criminal element and nut jobs. they will always get hold of something to do their dirty work
Actually it's difficult to be a smug Brit about it either.
http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6363713.stm
Three teenagers shot within a few days in south London.
The UK easily has as much violent crime as the US. It was something I noticed only after moving over here. In the US they have gun crime but in the UK its usually somebody beaten to death, or kicked to death, or run over, stabbed, strangled or pushed out of a window. The difference here is peoples easy access to guns.
Wherever you go there will be violence.
Canada has a small population so it is not fair to generalize whereas the American population is large enough to be statisically significant, therefore we can.
Canada has a small population so it is not fair to generalize whereas the American population is large enough to be statisically significant, therefore we can.
Biatch, puh-leeze.
/that's a masterful attempt to spin
//Faux News-worthy
///can we generalise about the UK?
Let's generalise about Brit spinmeisters in Canada roll
Canada's a bit of a grey area on guns, homocide and gun control.
The only fair way to compare homocide rates with guns with the U.S is on a per capita basis and even the very large Canadian cities have much lower rates than most cities in the U.S.
Canada's gun control laws are also way more restrictive than the U.S.
But comparison with the U.S isn't much of a benchmark and Canadians have no reason to feel smug.
In fact there are an astonishing number of guns in circulation in Canada in comparison to say France, Germany and even the UK. There are around a million revolvers licensed to mainly gun club members, security guards and the like.
The government's attempt to launch a gun registry for rifles and shotguns is a fiasco and has done little to stem the flow of illegal weapons that police insist are coming from over the U.S border
The man who mowed down a student and injured many others in Montreal last year obtained his gun perfectly legally, an adapted semi-automatic weapon that could be made more lethal by simply adding a certain type of clip.
Like the U.K, gun crime is on the rise in Canada. It may be a much smaller percentage of the same figures in the U.S, but Canadians have little reason to be complacent.
Canada's a bit of a grey area on guns, homocide and gun control.
The only fair way to compare homocide rates with guns with the U.S is on a per capita basis and even the very large Canadian cities have much lower rates than most cities in the U.S.
Canada's gun control laws are also way more restrictive than the U.S.
But comparison with the U.S isn't much of a benchmark and Canadians have no reason to feel smug.
In fact there are an astonishing number of guns in circulation in Canada in comparison to say France, Germany and even the UK. There are around a million revolvers licensed to mainly gun club members, security guards and the like.
The government's attempt to launch a gun registry for rifles and shotguns is a fiasco and has done little to stem the flow of illegal weapons that police insist are coming from over the U.S border
The man who mowed down a student and injured many others in Montreal last year obtained his gun perfectly legally, an adapted semi-automatic weapon that could be made more lethal by simply adding a certain type of clip.
Like the U.K, gun crime is on the rise in Canada. It may be a much smaller percentage of the same figures in the U.S, but Canadians have little reason to be complacent.
HEAR HEAR I agree violance is violance and its everywhere and no country has the right to take the * holier than thou * attitude .
death by murder is still death If its done by gunshot or by pushing out of a window
if a Human has a inclination to take anothers life he/she will surly find a way whatever counrry they reside in .
What the ban gun lobby doesnt take into account is the fact that most gun relaterd murders are carried out by " illegally acquired guns " in both UK and US. guns are serverly resticted in the UK yet they still have " murder by firearm "
On another note unfortunatly guns are with us thoughout the world you cant unring a bell they will always be avialable to those that desire them , illegally or otherwise .
history teaches us that lesson by prohibition in the 30s . alcohol was readily available in as large or larger qualtities than it was before the law came into effect.
The same can be said of hard drugs although ilegal and highly regulated any person in any town desiring a * fix * can find out where when and how to abtain there drug of choice with hours of wanting ..... the human ellament at work again
Accidental death by firearm in the US is a small percentage of the whole .
there are MORE accidental deaths by drowning, automobile ,and overdose then by guns every year. ....
Canada's a bit of a grey area on guns, homocide and gun control.
Gotta keep those queers down somehow......