<p>Yeah, it's hard to mangle the numbers that urban, democratic, multi-ethnic, muliti-racial Canada in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, etc. has much lower rates of deaths from guns (and violent crime in general) than comparable American cities. And Canadian kids also see all the same violent movies, videos, and TV shows as the American kids do. Yet Canadians in general die in far fewer numbers from guns than we do. Strict gun control maybe?</p>
<p>The next time you hear about another boy being shot dead by playing with a friend (or by himself) with a handgun that his parents thought was securely tucked away, just fleetingly remember it did not have to be. His equally precocious, curious, mischievous Canadian counterpart will still be alive.</p>