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Yeah, I'm sure it does nothing.
Not related, but how many school shootings did you guys have up there in 2023? Is firearms the number 1 cause of death for Canadian children? Because it is in the US.
Who needs actual statistics when you have anecdotal experience, right? Just trust your gut.
Firearms are not the number one cause of death for children...this bullshit was stirred up by having children mean 1-19 for firearm deaths and 1-15 for car deaths. It's still cars...the pandemic caused a slight outlier and everyone jumped on it. People didn't drive in 2020 much at all, of course deaths dropped....and suicides went up because surprise...no one was getting out.
I know it's a difficult statistic to accept. It's hard to believe.
But yeah no. I haven't seen anything to indicate that these statistics are inaccurate in any way.
How many school shootings did we have in 2016 comparatively? How many of you actually live in Canada and watched the news about these stories unraveling after 2019?
I'm not saying that GUN CONTROL BAD GUNS GOOD as much as you guys are portraying it that way. I asked how is it cutting down on crime and one of about 15 comments actually had a logical response to that without being a dick about it.