(Yngver) wrote:

If there are more guns per capita in Canada than in the U.S

Where do you get that figure?

US Bureau of Justice Statistics and Statistics Canada reveals that
the US has over three times the number of guns per capita as Canada;
the number of *handguns* per capita is 63.3 times higher.

Where did I get it? I didn't "get" that figure at all.

Sorry, that's what I remembered Moore saying in the movie, but possibly what he
said is that Canada has nearly as many guns per capita as the U.S. does (and
you will have to ask him where he got that figure because I don't
remember--it's been a while since I saw the movie).

Some reviews of the movie mention his point about guns being just as easily
available in Canada as in the U.S., yet the comparative rate of homicides using
guns in Canada is a fraction of what it is here. His question is why? What's
the difference? Some people (who haven't seen Bowling for Columbine) think the
film supports gun control, but that isn't what he's saying.