Oh Canadian gun owner, you’re gonna like these stats:
When it come“In a study of federal offenders the re-conviction rate was over 40% within three years after release. Approximately 13% of these re-convictions involved violent offenses.”
“Virtually all crimes committed with firearms involve illegally possessed firearms.”
“Despite lurid media accounts of murders involving firearms, law-abiding gun owners (i.e., those with valid licenses) do not threaten public safety. Canadians who have a firearms license are less than one-third as likely to commit murder as other Canadians. Statistics Canada data show that licensed gun owners had a homicide rate of 0.60 per 100,000 licensed gun owners between 1997 and 2010. Over the same period, the average national homicide rate was 1.85 per 100,000.”
Source: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/60369#.Us9MnbRNi3o
