Gun control

[JoeW]

Lol

[G'day Mate]

The problem with this number is that it's not really 89 per 100, it's more like 30 per 100, but those 30 own multiple guns....some own dozens of guns.

Yeah, that would be gun ownership rate I suppose, but the same would probably hold true (at least to an extent) in other places.

[mk]

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.

[Jason]

So the average gun owner has 3 guns?

[tigeraid]

Just curious how often it happens in other countries.

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.

[MR2 Fan]

So the average gun owner has 3 guns?

I guess it depends on how you calculate.

If person A has 20 guns
Person B has 12 guns
Person C-H has 1 gun
Persons I-whatever have 0 guns, then it will skew the numbers

[JoeW]

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.

[MR2 Fan]

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.

But I think he meant my statisic of 30 out of 100 having guns where a majority do not own guns

[Tom Servo]

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.

[mk]

So the average gun owner has 3 guns?

Possibly.
No idea how it goes inside a household.
Or how many guns have multiple (posession)licenses.

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

Others 2010 overall
cannon 100
bazooka 1
mortar 15
missile/rocket 0
submachine gun 2598
assault rifle 364
machine gun 1312