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nadinbrzezinski

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1. They also have a lot more laws

Reply to NNguyenMD (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:08 PM

Dec 2012

Including licensing and background requirements that would give the NRA fits.

They also mostly do not license pistols. Most of the weapons in private hands are riffles.

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While I am for greater gun control laws, lets remember that Canada also has high level of... [View all] NNguyenMD Dec 2012 OP

They also have a lot more laws nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #1

Sounds good to me alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #2

Canada has more laws Harmony Blue Dec 2012 #3

Yup nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #6

I'm sure the dead at that school Phlem Dec 2012 #4

Particularly if it is also true that his mother Lionessa Dec 2012 #5

Canada has less guns and tighter gun laws. DanTex Dec 2012 #7

Canada has a much lower rate of gun ownership than the US frazzled Dec 2012 #8

You can own a semi-auto AR-15 in Canada, anyone can. nt rDigital Dec 2012 #9

... and ownership of such weapons is strictly controlled and licensed intaglio Dec 2012 #11

That doesn't prevent anyone who wants one from owning one. Did I mention that the Canadians rDigital Dec 2012 #12

One aspect of the gun control system has gone intaglio Dec 2012 #13

Canada is what the US would be without the wing-nuts. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #10