B 1 , University student in Computer Science <| sep |> So we ' ve got about 600 homicides last year in Canada , so if our population is about 10 % of the US population then all things being equal they should have about 6000 homicides per year . Holy shit ? 12 , 000 ? double what I would have expected . And over 60 % of them are committed with guns . It ' s almost like having easier access to guns might drive the murder rate up higher ? Personally , I would rather be assaulted by someone carrying a knife than someone carrying a gun . I think I ' d have a better chance of surviving a knife attack . And you don ' t really hear a whole lot about people going on mass stabbing sprees , and when you do the casualty count is pretty low .