Mass shootings in Nova Scotia

Mowich

Mowich

Hall of Fame Member
Dec 25, 2005
16,649
998
113
76
Eagle Creek
Now look for the solution to make sure this never happens again on Canadian soil.
Click to expand...
It will happen again, Boomer - maybe not the magnitude of this senseless heart-breaking slaughter, maybe an even greater tragedy - but it will happen. There is no way on Earth anyone can predict that at any moment a seemingly sane member of the community will suddenly and without warning decide to take the lives of others. That this individual chose the cowardly act of disguising himself as an RCMP officer only compounded an already deadly situation. No one without an underlying reason to do so, would consider an officer of the law to be a threat.
 
Tecumsehsbones

Tecumsehsbones

Hall of Fame Member
Mar 18, 2013
60,378
9,538
113
Washington DC
Girth said:
Problem is that for every shooting that is for legitimate purposes, there are 10 people that are shot, where it was not justified (accidents, gang violence, domestic violence, random shootings, etc)
Click to expand...
Depends on which figures you read.

According to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, there are about 90,000 criminal shootings in the U.S. per year, both fatal and non-fatal.

https://lawcenter.giffords.org/facts/gun-violence-statistics/#totals

Estimates on defensive uses of guns range from 80,000 to over two million per year, according to Wikipedia.

Not that that's a perfect set of stats, mind. Coupla things:

In many surveys "defensive use" includes brandishing a gun and not firing, or firing and not hitting anybody.

In this debate, "gun violence" is often used to describe any violence involving a gun, without assessing whether or not the use is legal or legitimate.

And, of course, I am most assuredly NOT saying that a higher absolute number of legal or legitimate gun uses than illegal or illegitmate gun uses leads automatically to a conclusion that it's moral or OK, nor the obverse. In moral and social calculations, 1 does not always equal 1.
 
H

Hoid

Hall of Fame Member
Oct 15, 2017
20,408
4
36
How many times are guns used to threaten people that never show up in the stats?

Tens of millions?
 
gerryh

gerryh

Time Out
Nov 21, 2004
25,756
295
83
Girth said:
Problem is that for every shooting that is for legitimate purposes, there are 10 people that are shot, where it was not justified (accidents, gang violence, domestic violence, random shootings, etc)
Click to expand...


How does quoting the illegal use of a gun, such as gang violence or mass shootings like this one, justify more restrictions?
 
Tecumsehsbones

Tecumsehsbones

Hall of Fame Member
Mar 18, 2013
60,378
9,538
113
Washington DC
gerryh said:
How does quoting the illegal use of a gun, such as gang violence or mass shootings like this one, justify more restrictions?
Click to expand...
Only if you can effectively reduce the flow of illegal guns into your country or distribution/possession of them within your country.

None of the plans for Canada I've seen on this board would do that. Especially since y'all share a 2000+ km, mostly unguarded border with the U.S.

Wouldn't even drive the street price up much.
 
Avro52

Avro52

Time Out
Mar 19, 2020
3,635
5
36
Tecumsehsbones said:
Only if you can effectively reduce the flow of illegal guns into your country or distribution/possession of them within your country.
None of the plans for Canada I've seen on this board would do that. Especially since y'all share a 2000+ km, mostly unguarded border with the U.S.
Wouldn't even drive the street price up much.
Click to expand...

Build the wall, build the wall....and Trumps grifter kids will pay for it.
 
Tecumsehsbones

Tecumsehsbones

Hall of Fame Member
Mar 18, 2013
60,378
9,538
113
Washington DC
Avro52 said:
Build the wall, build the wall....and Trumps grifter kids will pay for it.
Click to expand...
Jim Jefferies said "Canada should build a wall, and they should make, like, three feet high. That way when the Yanks are dying from getting their jobs back and try to crawl into Canada for health care, they won't be able to get over it."
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom