Posted by Ritch on April 15, 2003, at 10:54:47
In reply to Re: Bowling for Columbine » cybercafe, posted by OddipusRex on April 15, 2003, at 7:00:15
Rural areas do have a lot more guns-mostly for hunting purposes. When I was a teenager growing up living on a farm, *everybody's* family I knew had a gun rack in their pickups and in their living rooms (sometimes a fancy case-if they had the bucks). I saw mostly rifles. A few handguns, but not many. The most common situation was a deer hunting rifle, a smaller rifle for squirrel season, and usually one or two shotguns for quail/rabbits/turkey. Living in urban areas I've seen a *lot* more handguns and far fewer rifles.
> I don't see guns or know people with guns either I'd never really thought about it. Wait, I can think of one family heirloom type rifle but I'm not sure it's working, I know it doesn't have any bullets. If half of the US households have firearms it seems like I would know more people who have them. I guess people who have hunting rifles,etc would be more likely to be in rural areas and people that have guns for protection or criminal purposes probably wouldn't be displaying them.
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> > > I found these statistics that showed Canadian firearms ownership in households was about half that of US households. The Canadian murder by firearm rate (per 100,000) was 0.6 compared to 6.9 in the US. The US had 11.5 times more murder by firearms. Total deaths by firearms(including accidents and suicides) were 2.9 times greater in US than in Canada.
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> > > Murder without guns was 1.6x more common in the US than Canada.
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> > i'm curious... how often do you see a gun in the U.S.? i can't remember the last time i've seen a gun in real life ... and i can't think of anyone i know who owns one ... maybe things are much different out in other parts of canada? i don't know
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