Most Canadians are shocked to hear that Canada has the fourth highest level of gun violence amongst OECD nations. A revealing comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on firearms. Japan reports an average of 0.005 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, averages 0.48, nearly […]
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Ministry Responds to Concerns of Bias, Repeats in Gun-Ban Survey
The Canadian government said its survey on banning guns is an “open, anonymous and barrier-free tool” as it responded to concern of biased questions and unreliable answers. Background Gun owners across the country criticized the relevance and methodology of the online questionnaire after it went live on Oct. 11. They […]