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Originally posted by robertthebard:
On the graphs in the second link, it indicates that the US has almost 9x the population of Canada, and yet the crime rates with or without guns is only roughly double.
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What, where? I found this table:
| Crime Statistics (Rate per 100,000) | Canada | US | US/Can |
| Murders with Firearms | 1998 | 0.5 | 4.4 | 7.9x |
| Murders with Handguns | 1998 | 0.23 | 3.3 | 14.5x |
| Murders without Guns | 1998 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.8x |
| Robberies with Guns | 1998 | 18 | 63 | 3.5x |
| Roberries without Guns | 1998 | 78 | 102 | 1.3x |
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And it gives higher numbers. Note that those are already per capita.