It does not. The US has far more guns. But Canada has significantly more guns than other similar western democracies. And, in fact, Canada has an intermediate level of gun violence between the extremes of the US wild west and totalitarian Europe!

It's almost like, as I said above, the clearly obvious determining factor in gun violence is the simple number of weapons. That this obvious hypothesis is simply disbelieved by large numbers of HN posters (many of whom like to call themselves "rationalists") continues to astound me.

> the clearly obvious determining factor in gun violence is the simple number of weapons

Except that this simply is not true.

Gun violence in the us is not correlated with gun ownership.

It is correlated with poverty. It’s as simple as that.

This is because ‘gun violence’ is just violence.

Calling it ‘gun violence’ makes it seem like it’s about guns, but it really isn’t.

Most of the gun owners I know here also tend to just have hunting rifles or stuff they take to the range.

Switzerland too.

Less minorities too...