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Originally posted by utabintarbo
It may also be due to the relatively homogeneous makeup of Canadian society (esp. French-Canadian). American society is a mixing bowl of numerous cultures which don't always mix well. It is the price society pays for the dynamism we have here in America. While I am sure the presence of guns is a factor, it is not the root cause.
To illustrate, compare Switzerland, which is among the most heavily armed of all countries yet has one of the lowest rates of gun violence, to the United States. What is the difference btwn. the two societies?
Bob
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The whole idea that USA is so much more mixed than the rest of the world I believe isn't true. For example there lives around 0,5million muslims in Sweden (total population of about ~8,6million) and then there are italians, yugoslavians, germans, polish, estonians, and people from loads of other countries. And there is England with people from all it's former colonies (black peole, indians etc) and still the % of people who own firearms are lower. What I believe might be fun to know is how many homeless people and poor people there are in usa. Since over here we pay about 25% taxes and the social security is enormous. While in the USA you have to have pay for hospital, have doubble works etc. I don't know a single person who have more than 1 job over here. And even though the taxes are the highest in the world you can still buy dvd, cd's, pc games, cars etc to fairly prices. Poor people survive and the rich still is rich. Low taxes I think is a egoistic way of helping the rich and strong to survive, and they don't need help to survive since they are rich. I know I have written everything in a somewhat "bad/poor" english. But please shout out what about my opinion that you find f***** up
