US and Canadian Homicides

[thomas]

The US had bout 12,000 homicides last year, canada had less than 350, why is this? GO! ;)

[exatreide]

Becouse Canadians are to drunk to kill each other, and becouse their bad shots. Duh! (har har har! :))

[Andrew]

We have less access to guns, are more polite and nice to people, and obvisouly too drunk to operate a gun.

Also guns don't work up here where it's cold, they freeze up. ;)

Population wise we have almost the same percentage of homicides in each country.

[exatreide]

Were all gangsters, we shoot sqirls,birds,targets, trees,each other, anything that moves cause bullets gotta do something....

Compared to....Somolia...The homocide rate is low! So ha!

Ahh the smell of napalm in the morning....smells like victory...

[thomas]

percentage wise maybe but less than 350 actually I think canada yearly homicides are about 68 or so I forgot, but anyways no out of 10mollion homes in canada about 7 million owned guns, and most of those had multiple guns, so no amount of guns owned is the same,

[Gobalopper]

Canada doesn't have nearly as many big cities either.

[SurlyPIG]

Population wise we have almost the same percentage of homicides in each country.

Not so. If you take the numbers from this thread, (USA 12,000, Canada 350) divide the population by these murders, the chance to be murdered in the USA is 1 in 23,750 whereas in Canada it's 1 in 90,000. By inversing the numbers, you get 0.0000421 murders per person in the US, versus 0.0000111 murders per person in Canada. So you're 3.8 times more likely to be murdered in the US than in Canada.