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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 6 years ago

Why doesn't Canada have a mass shooting every day?

Guns are extremely hard to get here. It is one big "no carry zone." Therefore, shouldn't there be anarchy in the streets without armed citizens to help?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
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    Because guns are not easily obtainable.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Look at how Canada was founded and how many wars Canada has been involved in. then look at how the United States was founded and how many wars we have been involved in. the United States, like it or not, was founded on violence and it's been a violent country ever since. people can try to be idealistic if they want to, but the facts are facts. when the most popular movies that come out are violence filled movies and war movies what does that tell you about a country's population? it has less to do with how many guns are available and more to do with the type of culture that we live in

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Canadians are just different people with different beliefs. The simple fact that the Americans got their @rses kicked out of Canada in the war of 1812 should tell you something. The American 2nd amendment doesn't exist in Canada, because Canadians have more sense.

  • 6 years ago

    If a person could identify what Switzerland and Canada have in common maybe a solution could be found. They are at opposite ends of the gun control issue.

    I personally feel that it has to do with the interdependency of the societies. Which is just a fancy way of saying they are brought up thinking about their responsibility to the society instead of what society owes them.

    My major point is this- Canada is not safer because of gun restrictions, Switzerland disproves that notion!

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Maybe Canada doesn't have a bunch of paranoid right-wing cowards who can't defend their weak, miserable selves without a gun!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Lack of population ever occur to you? You can't compare the number of deatths in my backyard to the number of deaths in Russia. It's funny, the day after Canada banned handguns there was a news story on the radio about teens hacking people to death with machetes in a Toronto park. Personally, I'd rather be shot! I used to live in Detroit and listen o Windsor radio! CIMX or CJOM.

  • 6 years ago

    Of course we have murders in Canada too.However I feel safer going to church,to a restaurant,to a park or having a ride in someone's car in Canada.In the U,S. many people may have a gun in their pocket.Many will use their guns at the slightest provocation.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    First of all your over all population is less than 35 million people.

    That is the entire population. Spread out over a geographic area

    once again the size of the US. So to get 9 Canadians standing

    in one area is pretty remote. ( Of course I jest).

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Same reason the USA doesn't have a mass shooting every day

    Mass murder is rare in general

  • 6 years ago

    Because they are all waiting in long lines for healthcare and don't have time to plan a murder.

  • jimmy
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Because Canadians are brought up differently

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