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Firearm homicide was 8X. It's in the same article.



I thought we were talking about mass shootings?

But murder rates are only 3x the US v Canada.

See the importance of the right statistics?

1000x more firearm deaths, but only 8x more firearm homicides but then 3x more murders.

I would definitely agree the US has a worse murder problem than Canada, but making is purely a gun problem misses the point. Do guns play a role? Sure.




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