Re: Gun FACTS

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From: Fred Davis VA3FD
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 15:28

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In article <3af5rg$7qc@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, chrstie@cc.umanitoba.ca
(William John M. Christie) wrote:
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> I don't know about explosives.  Firearms result in roughly 1,600 Canadian 
> deaths per year.  80% are suicides, 15% are homicides and 5% are 
> accidents.  For 1992 (Stats Can) I think 60 people were killed with 
> handguns.  Only 4 of those were with legal handguns.  I don't know if 
> those four people were murdered, accidently shot fatally or committed 
> suicide.  On a per firearm owner's basis (assuming 7,000,000 firearms 
> owners in Canada) that works out to 0.02285% death rate amongst 
> firearm owners by firearms.

What I'd like to know (and have been unable to find out) is how many of
these were police shootings.  They should be included in the stats as
"homicides".

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Fred M. Davis   VA3FD           | These opinions not necessarily
Nepean, ON.                     | those of the company
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