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Maya2001 -> RE: Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime (11/3/2007 4:26:10 PM)
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Bearing guns or gun control has really no bearing on crime rates, the media is a much more powerful weaponfor cause and effect combined with sudden jumps in inflation.
When the media that showing graphic school shootings suddenly a rash of copy cat shooting occured most of the televsion programming in Canada is US based so what media shows here also get copied stuff like youth mimicing gangs, mobbing, shooting robberies etc, etc, etc it was stuff that was pretty much unheard of in my youth and we could not bear arms then just like today. When the goverment put a $20 increase on a carton of cigarettes a few years back , armed robberies went thru the roof , many variety stores simply closed up at night because it became too dangerous to stay open , eventually to decrease the level of crime that was occuring the government lower the price of cigarettes again and did only slow gradual increases. it is no different that what has occured in the US after hurricanes when there is suddenly a shortage of money supplies , you have sudden sharp increases of crimes occuring gun control or lack of is not going to stop it from occuring, I can say with almost 100% certainty if a stock market crash occured as what happened in 1929 things will get extremely nasty, but I would much rather be living here in Canada than some metropolitan city in the US, I drove thru a couple areas of the US 30 years ago in brodad daylight and even then the only way to feel safe was to have windows fully up and doors locked, I have drove thru slum areas here including reserves and never felt that intense need.
I was just thinking about another thing.... it might be interesting to google crime rates in some of the larger US cities and compare them to Toronto which is the 5th largest city in North America, hand guns were banned over 30 years ago and weapon use here is restricted to mostly just hunting with heavy restrictions over the last 10, I have no idea when in Canada, guns were last allowed to be used for protection of home of family my guess is it was over 50 years ago (some exception for farmers) I would thing crime rates involving guns would be far far less since less available guns here for criminals to get their hands on but I do believe per capita the overall crime rate is still far less than many major US cities.
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