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Originally Posted by Skinnydipper
Alberta, for example, would more likely emulate states such as Montana in terms of reality in handgun use and misuse.
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I wanted to get this back to handgun hunting, but since you mentioned Montana....
I did some research a while back in connection with some submissions I made to government on Bill C-391.
The murder rate in the State of Montana (a "right to carry" state) from 2005-2008 was
1.9 per 100,000.
The rate in Alberta over the same years was
2.9 per 100,000.
50% higher murder rate here in AB than they have in MT.
I used those years because they were the latest available at the time. I used FBI Uniform Crime Statistics on the U.S. side. Here, I had to buy the stats from Stats Canada.
Now, here's the kicker - it turns out the FBI tracks "homicide". That includes justified killings like self-defence. I think it might also include suicide, but I never could nail that down. Here in Canada, we track only murder and we leave out self-defence, police killing and suicide.
Therefore, if we were able to compare apples to apples, MT is a much more than 50% safer than AB.
Thought some of you might be interested in those facts. Back to hunting.