Quote Originally Posted by discojoe View Post
The bottom line is violent crime goes up, not down, in places where gun control laws have been created. Law-abiding people having guns, though scary to some, prevents more deaths than it causes.

How many people would have died in Virginia Tech if the students had been armed? The gunman would have been shot down in seconds. Sure, some innocent people may get hit in crossfire, but I doubt 30 people would have been killed.
FYI:

Canada Firearms Registry - 2001
Population 33 million
Since:

2 school shootings
3 deaths
Ratio of school shootings to population: 0.06
Ratio of deaths in school shootings to population: 0.09

USA
Population 300 million
Same timeline?
20 school shootings
77 deaths
Ratio of school shootings to population: 0.07
Ratio of deaths in school shootings to population: 0.26


Also:

In a cross-border comparison for the year 2000, Statistics Canada says the risk of firearms death was more than three times as great for American males as for Canadian males and seven times as great for American females as for Canadian females.
*CBC

The risks of gun control?