Gun deaths cut in half, StatsCan says

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Gun deaths cut in half, StatsCan says

Last Updated Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:08:32 EDT
CBC News

The risk of death by gunshot has been cut in half in Canada and is far smaller than in the United States, Statistics Canada says.

In a study issued on Monday, the federal agency notes that Canadian gun-control laws have been stiffened in recent decades and gun registration has been made compulsory, but it draws no conclusions about the cause of the falling death toll.

It says that 816 people — 767 males and 49 females — died of firearms-related injuries in Canada in 2002, the most recent year examined in the study. This represented 2.6 deaths per 100,000 population, down from 5.9 per 100,000 in 1979, it said.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/28/gun-deaths050628.html