Awash in guns with the weakest gun laws on the planet, the United States--with 4.29% of the world's population--outpaces every other country in gun-related deaths.
In America, guns kill more than six people per 100,000 citizens.
Canada also has those who trot out the defeatist gun lobby-fueled fallacy that "Taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens does nothing to stop dangerous criminals who obtain their guns illegally."
Yet we have the facts to disprove that.
Pedal that lie to Australia after it suffered its worst mass shooting back in 1996.
After the Port Arthur Massacre, Australia passed legislation to require licenses to own virtually any type of gun and regulate semiautomatic pistols and rifles as automatic ones.
To quote author and progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann in his book The Hidden History of Gun and the Second Amendment:
"They also put into place a series of national amnesty and gun-buyback programs, which pulled hundreds of thousands of now-illegal guns out of circulation in that country, while appropriately compensating former gun owners.
"Since the implementation of these laws in 1996, Australia has had only one mass shooting incident, and that was relatively small. In the first years after the laws took place, firearm-related deaths in Australia fell by well over 40 percent, with suicides dropping by 77 percent.
"Every other developed or developing country in the world has more stringent gun-control laws than the United States."
Pedal the lie to New Zealand after it banned most semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles after just one mass shooting last April.
We can say we're exceptional in this.
Canada has universal healthcare and now an assault weapons ban.
We've got neither.
We should have both.
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