At Least Four Dead After Shooting In Fredericton, Canada

[Tony Stark]

In the past, yes. But they appear to be rapidly catching up.

In their major cities, the gun homicide rates in Canada are still below major U.S. cities like Chicago, NYC, DC. etc. But these are all cities in the U.S. with strict gun control laws.

The trend in Canada for rural/suburban areas with gun control laws is that the gun homicide rate is higher than in many equivalent areas in the U.S. with no gun control laws.

Thats alot of cherry picking of statistics.How many shootings in The US? How many in Canada?

 

[Slartibartfast]

Thats alot of cherry picking of statistics.How many shootings in The US? How many in Canada?

Yeah good luck there.. I'm thinking this is him as a kid. GWB-Grape.

 

[gwb-trading]

Thats alot of cherry picking of statistics.How many shootings in The US? How many in Canada?

What's the population of Canada? What's the population of the U.S.?

 

[Tony Stark]

What's the population of Canada? What's the population of the U.S.?

List the stats I asked about adjusted for population size

 

[gwb-trading]

List the stats I asked about adjusted for population size

You don't seem to understand the basics of how statistics work.

The starting point is the population size. Let's see if you can even look up the population of Canada and the population of the U.S.

 

[piezoe]

So how is that gun control working out in Canada, eh?

The statistics are out there for all to see. Death rates due to guns fired by someone other than the victim in Canada are a tiny fraction of what they are in the U.S. Canadian gun laws are far more sensible than those in the U.S. But this may not be the reason why the crime rate in Canada is so much lower than in the U.S. It could be that Canadians are more sensible than U.S. citizens.

 

[Tony Stark]

You don't seem to understand the basics of how statistics work.

The starting point is the population size. Let's see if you can even look up the population of Canada and the population of the U.S.

In other words you dont want to list shootings per 100,000 because The US is still far ahead,got it.

 

[piezoe]

You don't seem to understand the basics of how statistics work.

The starting point is the population size. Let's see if you can even look up the population of Canada and the population of the U.S.

This kind of thing is usually reported as a relative number. That that takes population into account. I guessing that socioeconomic factors would highly correlate. Canada has a drastically less skewed wealth distribution than does the U.S. and it seems that Canada also has more uniform public education and far less poverty. Very few people are bankrupted by medical care costs in Canada, whereas that's the number one reason for personal bankruptcy in the U.S. One of the statistics that does not correlate as expected with crime rate is incarceration rate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any major country (I think it might be the highest of any country period!). Many would think a high incarceration rate would be inversely related to the crime rate. In the U.S. these measures seem to be directly correlated. Go figure?

 

[Slartibartfast]

Why you guys even humor him I have no idea. He knows, he has done such BS endless times. We pretend we don't see their shitty tiny minded little games..

Amateurs the lot anyway A guy was shot for selling flowers in an annoying way here in Medellin *last weekend. I love it here, almost no crime with regards petty theft and whatnot but it goes from zero to lethal in one minute.

It is the American gun activist dream. No real rules except fear of consequences. Mental health levels are a lot better here of course than the US.

*Probably a half dozen more but a guy I know saw this one.

 

[gwb-trading]

This kind of thing is usually reported as a relative number. That that takes population into account. I guessing that socioeconomic factors would highly correlate. Canada has a drastically less skewed wealth distribution than does the U.S. and it seems that Canada also has more uniform public education and far less poverty. Very few people are bankrupted by medical care costs in Canada, whereas that's the number one reason for personal bankruptcy in the U.S. One of the statistics that does not correlate as expected with crime rate is incarceration rate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any major country (I think it might be the highest of any country period!). Many would think a high incarceration rate would be inversely related to the crime rate. In the U.S. these measures seem to be directly correlated. Go figure?

Yeah it's amazing in the U.S. all the felons incarcerated for gun crimes they committed in cities with strict gun control laws. Why don't these felons in Chicago and other cities simply obey the gun control laws and not shoot people with guns.