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205073, RE: 1 in custody, 12 dead in Aurora theater shooting
Posted by jazz4free, Sun Jul-22-12 02:38 PM
According to Statistics Canada, for the year 2006, 2.4% of all violent crimes committed involved a firearm.
For the USA in the year 2000: "Victimizations involving a firearm represented 8% of the 6.3 million violent crimes of rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault... According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 2000, 533,470 victims of serious violent crimes (rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) stated that they faced an offender with a firearm." -- US Bureau of Statistics.
So, 2.4% Canada, 8% USA. Accidental shootings, I have no idea. I can only surmise percentages would be similar.
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