From The Telegram:
If the federal government’s numbers are right, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are Canada’s most heavily armed citizens, but also its least trigger-happy.
According to the most recent numbers from the Canada Firearms Centre, the province has 70,977 registered firearms. Statistics Canada’s latest numbers estimate the province’s population at 508,270. That’s one gun for every 7.2 people, the highest ratio of guns to people of any province in the country.
Statistics Canada’s most recent numbers on gun crime also reveal the province has the lowest annual rate of victims of firearm-related crime in the country, with just 11.4 victims for every 100,000 people.
Gun owners and hunters in the province believe the numbers reflect the province’s close ties to the environment and citizens’ respect for the responsibilities of owning a firearm.
Much of the same pattern can be seen here in the US if one bothers to look at the data. Guns are not the problem – criminals are.
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1 Linz // Sep 5, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Indeed, where I live in Kennesaw there is a law on the books requiring head-of-households to own a gun. We have an EXTREMELY low crime rate, and we are in Cobb County. Yeah, metro-Atlanta. Using a comparison website (http://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=51343192&city2=51349756) Marietta (next door neighbor to Kennesaw, same county) the crime rate on a scale from 1 to 10 is 6 for violent crime. Kennesaw is a 2. The US is a 3. Makes sense to me.