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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why don’t we just research how Canada has low gun crime? Handgun ban. Or Australia.  Gun ban.  There’s plenty of examples — even Putin has strong gun laws in his country, while he cozies up to the NRA to flood our streets with guns to destabilize the US.[/quote]

Apples to oranges comparison. El Salvador has tough gun laws compared to Switzerland. The murder rate was 36 per 100k in El Salvador in 2019 and .54 to  100k in Switzerland during the same year. Comparing the US to countries with completely different populations and income inequality levels is pointless.[/quote]

Canada is the nation most like the US.

They ban handguns. They have lots of rifles.
They have low gun crime.

That could be us.

Seriously — if we had a federal gun law like Canada, something that should be a bipartisan easy lift, that shooting on 14th street wouldn’t have happened.

Idle kids would be fighting their fights with fists or knives, not killing bystanders with errant bullets because it’s easy to get a handgun from Virginia or WV.[/quote]

Canada, in additition to being a relatively sparsely populated country, most decidedly does not “ban” handguns.

The US federal government bans heroin, cocaine, fentanyl and even marijuana. How’s that working out?

The Magic Magnet is a fantasy. [/quote]

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