Alternate headline: “
Statistician obviously never wants a job in media again...”
"By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout.
I was still anti-gun, at least from the point of view of most gun owners, and I don’t want a gun in my home, as I think the risk outweighs the benefits.
But I can’t endorse policies whose only selling point is that gun owners hate them."
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RELATED: Who really believes...
...if you take legal guns away from law-abiding citizens, there will be no more crazy people, no more criminals...
"Actually, the CBC's total cost figure of $2 billion for the entire gun registry "file" amounts to about $685,000 per day, which means they spent the entire initially estimated budget of $2 million, again according to the CBC, every three days, for eight years straight."
Let's remember that
"only 0.00555% of Canada's two million licensed gun owners used their firearm to kill someone."
Well, obviously we have to take these engines of death out of the hands of private citiz...
wait a minute...
In 2015, the number of motor vehicle fatalities in Canada was 1,858, with 10,280 serious injuries.
Assuming, as with stats in the U.S., that half of these "
killings" were actually suicides... you are
30 times more likely to be killed in your car on your daily commute than by a legal firearms owner.
Let the lawsuits against the Big Three automakers commence.
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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH:- TORONTO - One person has been pronounced dead after a shooting at Islington Avenue and Dixon Road area shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon.
Not to be confused with yesterday's incident...
Just after 1 p.m., Toronto police said they responded to a call for three to four gunshots fired in the Eglinton Ave. E., and Brimley Rd. area., said Toronto police spokesperson Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook.
One male was transported to hospital with serious gunshot wounds.
More good news for "the community"...
"A man who spent more than a decade behind bars for a 2004 drive-by shooting is now free after charges against him were stayed on Thursday. Jason Wisdom had been convicted of murder, attempted murder and murder to benefit a criminal organization."
Yippee!!!