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The Canadian government is legalizing marijuana next year, and so they've been doing research

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That's an interesting stat. I always thought 'loyalty' to the devil's lettuce had a rural/urban divide between BC/Ontario where it was more acceptable in rural Ontario and more acceptable in urban BC. Those statistics would suggest not. Perhaps it's just a matter of population.
 
Hmm I would say over the last 10-20 years it's been pretty acceptable in the cities of Ontario. Cops don't really care (unless you're breaking another law at the same time).

Mind you that 2nd graphic is a bit deceiving, as it doesn't show you the population of each province. Ontario has 38.6% of all Canadian cannabis users, but also 37.5% of the population of Canada. Those numbers are pretty close. Same with BC's, they have 13.9% of pot smokers and 12.8% of the population of the country. So per capita they seem sort of similar
 
I guess the Territories aren't the best place for cultivation....:cowboy:
 
According to your link, Canada has 33% of the number of guns as the U.S. does per capita. Our homicide numbers are still way lower with even that in mind

This is not a contest by any means, I just thought the numbers were craaaazy when I first saw them
 
This is why I'm not nervous when I go to a Canadian city. The difference in Canadian guns needs to take into account handguns, not all guns. Do the stats cover that?
 
No idea. The only thing I take out of the stats I posted is that Canada's homicide capital wouldn't even crack the American top 50. Not that I think American cities are dangerous to visit - you just need to know which parts to avoid.
 
I was looking at Canadian gun laws recently. Handgun restrictions are extreme by US standards. Not that that's a bad thing. But it's different enough to stand out. Canada doesn't really restrict standard rifle and shotgun types. Given that Canada has vast wilderness areas, and lots of wildlife that is, or could be, dangerous, that makes sense. http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cfp-pcaf/pol-leg/act-loi-eng.htm Apparently many Americans don't know this, and try to cross the border with guns in their vehicles.

One provision that caught my eye was the prohibition of .25 and .32 caliber handguns. Which are some of the least powerful handguns ever made. But also some of the smallest. So even though they are low power, they are easily concealable. There were also some provisions about short barrels, which also speaks to ease of concealment.
 
Yeah, in the end, our longbarrel laws are actually pretty easy to deal with. The big difference is that we view gun ownership as a privilege. After you jump through the hoops, no one cares if there's a rifle in your trunk.
 
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Cutlass said:
One provision that caught my eye was the prohibition of .25 and .32 caliber handguns. Which are some of the least powerful handguns ever made. But also some of the smallest. So even though they are low power, they are easily concealable. There were also some provisions about short barrels, which also speaks to ease of concealment.
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Low power.25 ACP and .32 ACP chambered handguns can be made with really cheap alloys and still be safe to shoot. Historically, in the US, these were the first firearms that were affordable to the average poor working class black person. This fact along with skewed police statistics meant that cheap guns quickly acquired an over-inflated reputation as "criminal guns" and so many were restricted under the 1968 gun control act.

It seems Canadian lawmakers felt the need to ban such handguns but apparently they didn't actually know how to do it other than banning two common barrel diameters.
 
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Low power.25 ACP and .32 ACP chambered handguns can be made with really cheap alloys and still be safe to shoot. Historically, in the US, these were the first firearms that were affordable to the average poor working class black person. This fact along with skewed police statistics meant that cheap guns quickly acquired an over-inflated reputation as "criminal guns" and so many were restricted under the 1968 gun control act.

It seems Canadian lawmakers felt the need to ban such handguns but apparently they didn't actually know how to do it other than banning two common barrel diameters.
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But they didn't ban the .22 pocket guns. :dunno: Although some people use higher quality .22 pistols as target pistols. But tiny 22 automatics are not uncommon. Even though they kind of suck. I have a .32 revolver, which uses a different round from the .32ACP, and that round is apparently not easy to find. But I guess that's banned in Canada too. Not that it would be of much use to discourage a bear.
 
Bugfatty300 said:
It seems Canadian lawmakers felt the need to ban such handguns but apparently they didn't actually know how to do it other than banning two common barrel diameters.
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Proof in the pudding. In the end, our gun violence to gun freedoms ratio ain't all that bad.
 
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