Reply #11: "Those 10 handguns are not a tiny drop in an ocean of... [View All]

[Mad_Cow_Disease]

"Those 10 handguns are not a tiny drop in an ocean of illegally-possessed handguns as they would be in a US city. They each have a potentially very significant effect on criminal activity in Canada, because each one represents a statistically significant addition to the criminal arsenal here."

According to a recent paper by Nicholas J. Johnson, Canada has close to 7 million registered guns while is estimated to have about 10 million unregistered guns. Hmmm, I wonder how many of those 10,000,000 unregistered firearms are pistols? It wouldn't surprise me if MOST of those are pistols or other prohibited weapons. A dozen pistols stolen from one guy... heck even a dozen pistols stolen every day... should not be anywhere close in staticstically significant crime contribution in an est. population of 17,000,000 firearms (~60% unregistered).