Why are firearm related deaths so much higher in the U.S. vs Canada?

I think the correlation is more of a "poverty of culture".

People are losing the value of the traditional family, where parents work together to provide for and to raise children with the tools to do the same when they grow up. We have generations of broken families reproducing and increasing the burden on the rest of society. Not only are they a drain financially, they are filling our prisons and passing on an "entitlement mentality" to their kids. These are the people committing most of the crime. They don't know how to work or see the benefits of work or integrity. Certain races are further down this slippery slope than others, but that is a generalization. This cancer affects all races.

 

"Poverty of culture"..I like that, very accurate...

our native population experienced a similar social breakdown...after eliminating their lifestyle as incompatible with the whote world we gave them reserves and social subsidies...well that backfired as they lost any purpose in life, no jobs, idleness, poverty, it wasnt long until alochol and drugs their damage...now with a heavily damaged society how do we go about ending the cycle of poverty...

 

My point is that they do not have to deal with illegal drugs as severely as we do. Marijuana is not the only drug that is trafficked.

 

It isn't the guns and statistics prove that. It is the people, and more importantly, the difference in people.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/gun-381016-control-murder.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/06/how_covering_up_minority_crime_leads_to_gun_control.html

 

not that easily...there are different types of poverty...you can have poverty where the social family structure remains intact or it can exist where the family structure is dysfunctional...I grew up in a very large poor family but it was functional, mother and a father, living in a stable community where that was the norm...the family structure and culture of the society remained intact...

Children from dysfunctional families have no role models to emulate,where dysfunctional becomes the norm, its very difficult cycle to break out of...I have friend an educational psychologist worked with inner city aboriginal kids and relayed to me the absolute hopelessness many kids grew up in...children as young as 8 or 9 working in prostitution because that's what their mothers do...stealing, drug dealing,violence are the norm because thats what they grow up with, its what they do to survive they know nothing else, it's their norm....

 

I think you are absolutely right.

I'm old enough to remember when guns were much easier to obtain here in the U.S. and more people had them, yet the kind of violence we're seeing today was unheard of. So it seems to me the substantial increase in population, increased ethnic and political diversity, and pressures imposed by tightening economic circumstances, all taking place within the past few decades, are driving an increasing number of psychologically vulnerable individuals across the line.

Unless the economic circumstances and the socio-political atmosphere in America undergo some dramatic changes I am certain we haven't seen the worst of these violent outbursts.