Vancouver recent shootups
In a Vancouver suburb, a few years back, we had a series of shootings too. Most were attributed to a mafia style gang war going on between two organized crime groups. Not exactly a nut case walking in and shooting up a school but still murders all the same, also not mass killings but targeted killings of one or two a day for a little while. The guy, who oddly I know from way back when, is facing trial which starts pretty soon.
The last couple of days it has been happening again. 4 guys the other night and 4 last night too, again targeted shootings of longshoremen.
So yes, people here do have guns and do shoot each other, though probably less in a year than a week in LA, and these are not random acts of violence, they are targeted, gang wars.
Of course criminals will obtain guns no matter how many restrictions are placed on them. Our border with the US is enormous and all but impossible to completely lock down too, it's a given that crime will cross between out two countries.
Gin control does seem to have a positive impact here though, despite our being so close together and with so much daily traffic and trade between us. Just a small change in laws seems to have a more positive impact on our country though.
I'm not saying that gun control is the whole reason we have such low homicide by gun rates but I am positive that it plays a role in such low numbers.
