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Originally Posted by TEX-NARDI
Why is it that Canada ( per capita ) has a lower crime rate than the USA?
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CULTURE. Some countries have higher crime rates than others. Guns have nothing to do with much of it. You should read this study by two criminologists (an American and a Canadian):
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...useronline.pdf
A couple important parts: England used to have virtually no crime, they banned guns and their crime rate increased dramatically. While England's crime rate was going up and they were banning guns, the US's was going down and they were increasing gun rights (mostly through concealed carry laws). Some of the countries with the highest rates of gun ownership have the lowest crime.
What does this all mean?
"Each individual
portion of evidence is subject to cavil—at the very least the
general objection that the persuasiveness of social scientific
evidence cannot remotely approach the persuasiveness of
conclusions in the physical sciences. Nevertheless,
the burden
of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal
more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially
since they argue public policy ought to be based on
that mantra.149 To bear that burden would at the very least
require showing that a large number of nations with more
guns have more death and that nations that have imposed
stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions
in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are
not observed when a large number of nations are compared
across the world."