[lbo-talk] Why Democrats Can't Blame Bush for 9/11

[Jordan Hayes]

> According to Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, you
> [Canadians] actually have pretty much as much guns as your
> neighbor (relative to population). You just don't live in
> fear of the "other".

A large portion of gun crime in the US is committed in the process of
committing other "crimes" (I put that in scarequotes because quite a bit
of it is "drug crimes").  It's got much less to do with "fear" than it
has to do with an under-ground under-law economy that doesn't exist in
many other countries.

Further, the vast majority of "violent crime" is not committed with a
firearm; it has hovered below 10% for quite some time:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/percentfirearm.htm

The vast majority of US gun owners are just like their neighbors to the
north.

/jordan