SOC364H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Boogie 2Nite, Johnny Cash, Smart Gun
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Soc364 lecture 9 jun 16 - gun control 2. Song of the day - jonny cash: don"t take your guns to town. There is a distancing between us and canada whenever there is a shooting. Politician frame gun violence as canada doing much better than the us. These stats are not adjusted to reflect porportions. Rate of homicide is 3x higher in us than in canada; us is 6x higher in homicides with firearms. Canada & media policy maker doesn a lot of congratulating when it comes to these stats. If canada is not just compared to the us which is an anomaly; the us is in many ways an easy target. Gun deaths and injuries cost 6 billions dollars in canada! Gun deaths are the 3rd leading cause of death among young people 15-24. Canada ranks 5th highest in gun death rates for children under the age of 14.
