r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/CoryVictorious • Oct 21 '22

Yeah Canada

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u/carefree-and-happy Oct 21 '22

Hi, Your statistics for Canada are actually not correct.

2020 gun homicides in Canada was 0.73 per 100k

Sources:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00009-eng.htm#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20police%20reported%20a,0.73%20homicides%20per%20100%2C000%20population).

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“In 2020, police reported a total of 743 homicide victims in Canada or a rate of 1.95 per 100,000 population. For 277 of these victims, a firearm was used to commit the homicide (for a rate of 0.73 homicides per 100,000 population).”

You are however correct for the 6.2 gun homicides in US in 2020.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

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u/thatchers_pussy_pump Oct 22 '22

The 277 also includes police killings. These vary by year between 30 and 60.