Reply #71: US and Mexico? [View All]

[gejohnston]

US and Canada's gun culture are more alike. Mexico really does not have one for roughly the same reason UK does not. Do you seriously think an organized crime industry that brings in $50 billion a year is going to be bothered my Mexico's gun laws? US gun laws? They get most of their guns (machine guns, rocket launchers, other military stuff) from the southern border and explosives from North Korea and other points abroad. They make their own submarines to smuggle, they can't make their own gun factories? During WW2, Danish and Polish resistance fighters used to make STEN sub-machine guns in bicycle repair shops.

That is most of US gun violence too, which is concentrated in urban areas and/or major drug trade routes. Most if not all have stricter laws than Canada. US Virgin Islands, Chicago, DC etc. Most of our murders are gangster v gangster.

To be really ugly and blunt: the typical bong owner (unless they grow their own) contributes more to gun violence in all three countries than the NRA, NFA, and both gun cultures combined.

Edit to add, was Canada's murder rate higher before 1934? Machine guns before 1951 or 1977? Until 1977 it was easier for a Canadian to legally own a machine gun than here.