Guns

Been thinking a lot about shootings lately.
Well, crime in general. But mostly shootings.
I think it is too easy to buy guns.
I found a website that sells guns.
They aren't cheap, but they are still accessible.
Also, people who want a gun to kill someone
probably will get a gun illegally. Stolen or otherwise.

We have a gun registry in Canada.
Criminals don't register their guns.
They might steal registered guns, but they don't go out of their way
to let people know they have them.

In Canada, to be above board, they will need a PAL.
Possession and Acquisition License.
To get a PAL you need to pass a test
for the Canadian Firearms Safety Course.
Someone with malicious intentions isn't going to go
take any test to get any license. It doesn't happen.
Most guns used in homicides are stolen guns.

I sometimes wonder why some countries
have little to no gun related homicides.
Whereas some countries have the most gun related homicides.
I think of places like Japan versus the United States.

According to this, the highest rates were in

Honduras, 67.18
Venezuela, 59.13
Swaziland, 37.16
Guatemala, 34.10
Jamaica, 30.72
El Salvador, 26.77
Columbia, 25.14

These rates are based on population of 100,000 per year.

Canada rated 1.97
United States rated 10.54

Canada has a population of 36,286,378. Ranked 38th
U.S.A has a population of 324,118,787. Ranked 3rd
The highest populated country in the world is China with 1,367,485,388
The second highest populated country in the world is India with 1,251,695,584

Canada's entire population is actually lower 

than the population of California.

36,286,378 divided by 100,000 = 362.86

362.86 times 1.97 = 714.84

324,118,787 divided by 100,000 = 3,241.187

3,241.187 times 10.54 =  34, 162.120

First of all, I suck at math so these numbers are probably not accurate.

I'm probably doing it wrong. 

Secondly, if by chance these numbers are right, they are too damn high. 

Lastly, I had no idea that the population of Canada was lower than

the population of California. That seems hard to believe to me. 

Canada is bigger than U.S.A, but most of Canada is too cold to live in.

In Nunavut the average temperature is -19.7C (-3.5F)

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Canada is -63C (-81.4F)

That was in the Yukon. 

Anyway, there are people who live up North. But most do not.

Conditions are brutal, and food is too damn expensive

It's truly sickening. 

Their excuse is that it costs more to get the food up North, 

in fuel alone and some places aren't accessible by roads. 

But still! Gouging gouger bastards. Talk about greedy.

People need to eat and this is why the price of food keeps going up.

But the thing is, the gougers need to eat just like everyone else. 

At the end of the day, people can't eat money.

Sure, they can use money to buy food, 

but what happens when all the food is gone?

What happens if there is a huge natural disaster or an epidemic?

Anyway,

Which countries do you think rated lowest in firearm deaths?

Hong Kong, 0.03

Japan, 0.06

South Korea 0.08

Romania, 0.14

Qatar, 0.15 

Singapore, 0.16

United Kingdom 0.23

Ukraine, 0.24

One question brought to me by my boyfriend

was that he wondered if the lower rates had to do with

the races of the people in those countries. 

Personally, I don't think that is why. 

Biologically, maybe, people from different races have

different predilections. 

I'm not saying that it is true or that I believe it, 

but he thinks it could be possible. 

I think everyone has the same kind of biology

because we are all human beings. 

We all probably have the same base thoughts, 

the same base behaviours/drives/desires/emotions. 

I think what accounts for gun violence is psychology. 

Also sociology. But not necessarily biology. 

Sociopaths and psychopaths are more likely to 

go on mass shooting sprees than the average person. 

As I've always said, the gun registry is a nice theory. 

But the people that we have to worry about aren't going to be

in the registry. So what good is having it? 

I think it is a waste of money. 1 billion dollars. 

They say it helped reduce homicides by long guns by 41%

But how easy are these long guns to conceal? Not very. 

So why would they be used more than hand guns?

It doesn't make much sense to me. 

But then again, gun violence itself is senseless.