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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
one person with a van in Nice killed more than double everyone you're talking about in minutes as opposed to over decades..
Canada had 516 Homicides in 2015, Chicago, the city, had 468
Since Sept 11th, there have been over 600 deaths in mainland Europe as a direct result of "terror" and 95% of those attacks are carried out by groups with islamic ties:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror...European_Union
In the same period of time, there have only been 3 deaths in 2 separate "terror" attacks within Canada, and both were committed by "a recent Muslim convert" as opposed to sects of extremists operating as a group.
and now... if you want to get into 4444's point of the attacks on Planes etc. you can throw in those planes which were shot down by rebels, Russians, etc. over the last 10 years and add those deaths to the total as well..
I find it very hard to argue there are many safer places than Canada. |
If you're gonna look at homicide rates, yes ok. Canada is probably safer than Chicago. But does it really matter that much?
The homicide rates per 100000 residents in canada is approximately 1.56 vs 3.9 in the united states.
But in real terms we're talking about 2.5 people out of 100000 will be murdered in the US compared to Canada. So you have a 1 in 40000 (0.0025%) chance that you will be murdered if you lived in the US compared to Canada. That is nothing. It also does not adjust for differences in lifestyles. There are probably more people involved in organized crime and drugs in the US than in Canada. If you stay away from that stuff, your chances of being murdered also decreases.
You also need people to be around to go on a killing spree. A psychopath would probably have to run 100 times further to find another person in Canada compared to France. Hell if I went on a rampage in Hong Kong, I could probably mow down 1000 people within a minute. I don't think I could find a thousand people in 2 hours in Vancouver.