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Originally Posted by SteveC
Canada also has virtually the same land mass and 1/10th the population, so by the simple laws of proportion, 1/10th the gun crime and attrocities.
If you want to use stats to support your point, then you need to compare gun crimes per capita, although population density also has a lot to do with it. Spread the same number of guns across 10,000 sq miles of wilderness vs. New York City.....see what I mean....same population, same # of guns, different density. Ahhh the power of statistics
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The power of statistics indeed - and all from a 2minute google search:
For comparisons to various cities in North America, in 2007 for example, the homicide rate for the city of Toronto was 3.3 per 100,000 people, yet for Detroit (33.8), Atlanta (19.7), Chicago (15.5), San Francisco (13.6), Boston (10.3) and New York City (6.3) it was higher, while it was only marginally lower in Vancouver (3.1), San Jose (2.9) and Montreal (2.6).
Detroit is Toronto's nearest neighbour but has 10x the number of homicides per 100,000 people.