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Abolishinist

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2. Interesting, I thought Canada would be lower on the

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Fri Oct 21, 2022, 08:45 PM

Oct 2022

list of gun deaths per capita, and even though they are only 10% or so compared to US, they are still much higher than countries such as the UK and Japan, whose rates are only 10% of Canada's, i.e. 1% of ours.

Whatever, good for them. Hard to imagine anymore what it would truly be like to live in a 'civilized' country/world.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-us-gun-violence-world-comparison/?leadSource=uverify%20wall

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