Beaver to CanadaEnglish · 5 months agoGun-control group fears federal Liberals have ‘abandoned’ efforts on assault-style firearmstoronto.citynews.caexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down111
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minus-squareNouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·5 months agoCanada firearm homicides: 0.6/100,000 (2016) Canada vehicular fatalities: 5.0/100,000 (2022) You can absolutely care about multiple things, but there’s an order of magnitude difference in these two things.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoI’m pleasantly surprised this is the main type of response in this thread. It really, really isn’t our biggest problem right now, and the kind of laws they do put in about it are ridiculous showboating.
Canada firearm homicides: 0.6/100,000 (2016)
Canada vehicular fatalities: 5.0/100,000 (2022)
You can absolutely care about multiple things, but there’s an order of magnitude difference in these two things.
I’m pleasantly surprised this is the main type of response in this thread.
It really, really isn’t our biggest problem right now, and the kind of laws they do put in about it are ridiculous showboating.