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I saw an excellent program last year on this very subject. Why does America have a facination with guns and why is there so much violence? One reason is the United States is large with a great population (more poor than middle-class.) The poor live in areas where there are gangs and a violent way of life and it is accepted as part of their living conditions. Some of these gangs seem to be stretching out to other parts of the U.S. Long before this there was white gang violence (The Mob) Prohibition, drugs and prostitution. Canada is a smaller country with less population, but we have rifle clubs, gun clubs and less problems with violence, but, in the past 5 years our crime rate is growing in leaps and bounds and it's actually blackmarket weapons that are the weapons to fear. Most Canadians do not keep hand guns in their home and if they belong to a rifle club all rifles are locked safely away and used for sport only.

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