Again, we are much more diverse.
For instance, you are five times more likely to get murdered by a black than a white in the United States even though our black population is only 13.5%. In Canada, the black population is around 3%.
Yes, it's those evil Darkies...
And no, our prisons are not deterrents. We've allowed liberal judges to turn them into lowlife playgrounds with libraries, workout rooms, pool rooms, cable television and football fields. Hell, some of them have a little private room for you and your wife if you want to start a family.
Guy, you should read up on some the European Prisons. They are VASTLY more humane than ours. They are also not as overcrowded. While America currently locks up 2 million people to feed the Prison-Industrial complex, Germany only locks up 78,000.
Any conservative who thinks that prisons (other than the ones for rich people) are some kind of hotel really needs to spend a week inside one. They'll never spout such foolishness again.
The point about drugs is that you want to apply the same failed strategies to guns that you applied to drugs which is an obvious failure. All you really would do with guns (as we did to narcotics) is make it hard for the law abiding citizen to get their hands on them, but not the criminal.
Guy, you miss the point. The reason why drugs have such a market is that they are ADDICTIVE. Now, while a lot of you gun nuts do in fact act like addicts, with the same callous disregard and malignant narcissism, the fact is, you can live without a gun.
Addicts have a very hard time living without drugs.