Why has Canada have so many fewer incidents of mass murder than the United States?

canada is a much smaller country

Here is a like to some stats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Canada 1.6 per 100,000
United States 4.2 per 100,000

So the US has roughly 2.6% more homicides. I don't have figures on mass murders.

Homicides happen and will happen even with strict gun regulations in place. But really, set a person loose with a knife in a school and how many people is he going to take out compared to someone going in loaded up with semiautomatic guns?

Gun control works.

"But really, set a person loose with a knife in a school and how many people is he going to take out compared to someone going in loaded up with semiautomatic guns? "

How about 23? http://www.nydailynews.com/ne...

Interesting article, Greg. Most interesting part is this:

"No deaths have been reported."

Guns are much more deadly than knives. That's why "you never bring a knife to a gunfight".

Key word in her statement KILLED with a knife. Your post says injured. K still bad but NOT the same.

Canadian society was never gun conscious,and most would never consider killing another human bieng.There are very few homicides considering about 1/3 of the population owns guns.To this day people are so trusting that many leave their doors unlocked when leaving their homes. No one is concerned about carrying a gun since firstly it is agaist the law,and secondly there is no need for it for even the criminals do not own guns as well. Guns are almost strickly looked at a a weapon for hunting or target shooting,but otherwise they have no use in Canada.

You just dont hear about them.

Homicide rates in Canada rise 7%
Firearm deaths at lowest level in almost 50 years as killers favour the blade

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

...because all those American mass murderers are simply exercising their constitutional right to bear arms...(..besides, EVERY country has fewer mass murderers than the U.S...)

Besides the fact that Canada has only 30 million people while the USA has over 300 million most of who are all packing guns.

Most people are not packing guns. It is illegal in "most" states to carry a concealed weapon. Some of this started with the high influx from countries south of us and their penchant for forming gangs. Where there weren't many there are dozens now and they get guns either here or out of the countries south of us. Read about all the killings in Venezuela. Each state has their own regulations that accompany the federal laws and they vary. We have cut mental health programs and put a lot back onto the streets and not the citizens so don't keep saying it's Americans. Three of the mass murders I know about dealt with conditions, one schizophrenia, one Asperger's Syndrome and I don't know what might have accompanied that and a mental breakdown due to the stresses of no job and educational difficulties. None of this is condonable but until some of the underlying things are resolved, it will not fix the fact that people will get guns in anyway they can and commit crimes. Where the country is located is some of the problem as well for the free flow of arms through black market sales. It is a complex issue and not an overnight quick fix.

They have a knack for not pissing everyone off. . . Which pisses me off.

No, I was trying to represent a nationalist mindset. Canada is my second choice (after Britain) for where to go if I leave the States.

Most Canadians can not own a handgun.
We are all allowed hunting rifles but to get a handgun you have to do 2 different full weekends of gun safety and handgun training.
Then you have to write a written exam and then it takes and 4 months before you get your papers and permit to own a handgun.
I know because I did it.
I am happy the laws are so strict because responsible gun owners like me have to go through to get one.
So that makes it so much harder for criminal or the insane to get they're hands on one.

Not true 1 in 19 people in Canada have guns. It is legal to own a hangun if you have your pink card to do so. I know I have a few. I use to work in law enforcement. Responsible people can and will get a gun just follow the rules.

Not opposing you having a handgun but what in the hell do you need a handgun for?

I just use it to go range shooting.
It is really the only time I use it.

Most countries have less mass murder than the US >.<

Because they have National Health and all the nuts are being treated before they harm someone.

I was really being at least partly facetious but I do think that we have a large number of people in the U.S. who seem stuck on the idea that the government is against us and they will one day turn on us and try to destroy us. I don't feel that way. But, even if we all had automatic weapons we couldn't defeat an army of thousands with tanks and rockets and air power. It's just ridiculous to think of a scenario like that.

We are a lot warmer her in Vancouver than in the entire northeast US as well as CO, ND, SD, WY, UT, MN,ID, NE, IA, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH

It's a smaller country.

because US troops r killing women and kids around the world more than Canadain troops

one of the reason

But...it's usually Americans who are mass killing other Americans....isn't it?

check how many women and kids have been killed by US troops arount the world at least in last 50 years.

I guess you need to check and see how many women and men have been killed by the Mounted police in Canada. The natives are dying all the time read your paper.

We just love you Iranians.
When you get a nuke, we'll play.

u r welcome but do u think ./.1 have enough balls to do that?do u think it is video game to say Mission Accomplished,Welldone Soilder.....

Life is a video game.
You play with what you're given.
Make up some of the rules as you go along.
Try to find the object of the game.
Maximize your comforts.
Minimize your discomforts.
And if you're a religious person, you try to live by what your religion tells you.
If you're not a religious person, that's one less thing you have to worry about.

thanks for ur info and ur advice

Silly statement, it's called war however bad it is.

Canada is a huge land mass with a smaller population than California.