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

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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/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Jun 09 '22

That stat may not be entirely in inaccurate if they are only talking about the random public mass shooting. However, it is an incredibly misleading stat because they are incredibly rare in Canada.

Since 2000 there have only been 2 public mass shooting. Since 1989 there have been 5.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '22

What do you define as a "public mass shooting" because pretty sure there's more then two. For example; Mayerthrope (this one may or may not meet the definition of public), Moncton, Dawson College (not many dead but a lot were injuried), Quebec City Mosque, and Nova Scotia. That's 5 since 2000, plus a few others like the guy who shot up parliament with a lever gun but those were limited in scale.

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u/Batsinvic888 Bats888 on YouTube Jun 10 '22

I was going off of this list of massacres in Canada. They define it as

Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".

I didn't include the Shedden one because it was gang related.