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"I remember watching Micheal Moores documentary 'Bowling For Columbine' where he makes the interesting observation that Canadians have nearly the same rate of gun ownership as the states. So why the vast difference in gun crime between the two countries?

"Both countries speak English, both have a racial mix of people from all over the world, so the difference in violence statistics between the two countries is rather puzzling.

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"The only real difference I could find between the two countries, was the male circumcision rate, like the US 55% and Canada 12% circumcision rates."

-- Metafilter reader dollyknot (Peter Turland), 2009-03-08

( Peter Turland, on the difference between US and Canadian rates of firearm violence )

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