Lol
We have few cases annually.
More if gangs have disputes.
Domestics have been up in recent years.
(economics have had a lost decade)
Police have killed 8 since 2000.
For land and population we are something like Colorado.
2,6M households, 27% have 1,5M licensed guns, mostly hunting, 220k hand guns, pre.1890 black powder stuff is free to own, if not used.
So the average gun owner has 3 guns?
Once or twice a year in Canada, mostly. Occasionally more, this year we had the Toronto Van Attack (no guns), the shooting in Toronto Greektown, and the guy in Fredericton NB. And yes, it's covered pretty thoroughly on local news. But as I said in this thread ages ago, generally speaking I feel like we mourn, we talk about it a bit, and then we move on. Because a) it happens rarely and b) our gun laws seem to be doing a good job.
EDIT: perhaps as an interesting measure of "massacres" in Canada, the Wikipedia entry is less than one page long, and the first five entries happened in the 18th century. And if you're narrowing down the question specifically to "SHOOTING SPREES", there are nine occurrences. Like, ever.
EDIT 2: and as mentioned before, for what it's worth, Canada has a pretty large population of long-gun owners, farmers and hunters. Handguns and semi-automatics and assault rifles are mostly non-existent.
Last edited by tigeraid; November 21st, 2018 at 07:54 AM.
Person I-whatever is not part of that question. He said the average gun owner. So everyone owning 1 or more guns would fall into that statistic.
I think he was matching the "89 guns per 100 people" (and rounding up to 90 to make the math a little easier) to the "30 gun owners per 100 people" to make it an average of 3 guns per gun owner.
Possibly.
No idea how it goes inside a household.
Or how many guns have multiple (posession)licenses.
Others 2010 overallCode:2015 Top county 158% shotgun 225 rifle 137 combo 18 pistol <10 revolver <10 other 0 gas gun 0 flare gun 0 black powder 0 .22 cal rifle 99 pistol 14 revolver <10 Capitol 10% shotgun 19305 rifle 15069 combo 1094 pistol 8028 revolver 2851 other 363 gas gun 214 flare gun 596 black powder 434 .22 cal rifle 8873 pistol 5599 revolver 1295
cannon 100
bazooka 1
mortar 15
missile/rocket 0
submachine gun 2598
assault rifle 364
machine gun 1312