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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Legal rifles, like the one used in this incident, are very rarely used by either their owners or others to commit crime.

The report says:

"Among incidents in which the firearm had initially been obtained legally, the accused was the legal firearm owner in 44% of cases (24 of 54 homicides)."

44% is not rare!! That's alarming.

Even more damning is:

"Among the incidents in which the firearm had not initially been obtained legally, or in which the firearm was not legally owned at the time of the homicide, and for which this information was known (49 homicides), the firearm had been stolen from the legal Canadian owner in eight cases, and in five other cases, it had been purchased illegally from the legal Canadian owner.

Furthermore, Stats Canada also states that, "rifle or shotgun" represent 30% of firearm-related homicides, so the number is significant.

I think we do have a problem that needs to be examined deeply by our elected officials.

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