r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Jun 06 '22

Weekly Politics Thread

Please post all your Politics or Ban-related ideas, initiatives, comments, suggestions, news articles, and recommendations in this thread. Unless new information is published in the media, recurring articles related to the gov'ts ***possible*** legislation are to be posted here. These threads will be weekly, until it's necessary for another per-week.

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u/MasterMirr0r al Jun 09 '22

I have a friend who insists the stats show that the vast majority of mass shootings in Canada are from legal firearms.. this sounds suspect, to say the least. What are the actual stats?

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u/Afrozendouche Jun 10 '22

You have an uniniformed/misinformed friend. Tell them you would love to see those stats that they say show it. The onus is on them to prove their claim, not you to disprove it. Not that that matters to an idealogue or a zealot...

The bottom line is they won't be able to find any stats supporting their conclusion without taking US data. And we are not the US.