{"id":479,"date":"2015-09-09T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2015-09-09T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:28:22","slug":"canada-s-gun-deaths-creeping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/fr\/canada-s-gun-deaths-creeping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Gun Deaths Creeping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Canada, I\u2019ve always known there to be a relatively high rate of gun ownership.\u00a0 Living in a vast country with a lot of wilderness, a weapon is necessary in Northern communities or on most farms.\u00a0 Even as close as our farm is to civilisation, it is known to have a bear or two, and certainly coyotes and other wildlife, regularly in the area. For the most part, I\u2019ve always believed those guns weren\u2019t likely to be aimed at people.<\/p>\n<p>What surprised me in this excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/8\/24\/9183525\/gun-violence-statistics\">infographic<\/a>, was how much higher our rate of deaths by guns is than similar countries like New Zealand, Australia, and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Sure the US figures are so horrifying it is easy to miss the statistics for the rest of the world, but Canada is on the wrong side of the trajectory for number of guns opened versus number of deaths. It gives one pause, and makes me wonder what steps would be needed to drop those levels down to those of NZ or Scandanavia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/gun-homicides-per-capita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1029 size-full size-full wp-image-478\" src=\"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/gun-homicides-per-capita.jpg\" alt=\"gun homicides per capita\" width=\"600\" height=\"1178\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in Canada, I\u2019ve always known there to be a relatively high rate of gun ownership.\u00a0 Living in a vast country with a lot of wilderness, a weapon is necessary in Northern communities or on most farms.\u00a0 Even as close as our farm is to civilisation, it is known to have a bear or&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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