Teenager who shot intellectually disabled classmate was accustomed to firearms in his home

[gejohnston]

51. Neither are any of those other countries

certainly not Japan.
US gun laws are not really that much weaker than Canada's. But then, no place in Canada has virtual bans like DC or USVI. Simply different. Weaker in some ways, more stringent than others. Canadians can buy online and have the gun shipped to your door, not in the US. Canadian 12 year olds can legally buy ammo, not in the US. Felons can legally own guns after the pay their debt to society unless a "prohibition order" was part of the sentence. Those are reserved for violent felons. In the US, even John Dean is a "prohibited person" (I was surprised when iverglas once said that provision would be struck down as violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms). Doesn't really matter since their murder rate was equally low before 1977 when on balance, they were about the same. They didn't before 1969 when it wasn't that hard to get a concealed carry permit. They had stricter pistol regulations but lax on machine guns and even laxer on long guns. We were stricter on machine guns and short barreled rifles, including pistols with shoulder stocks.