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Originally Posted by dewolf

Different countries, different mentalities I know.....but that's fcucked dude. Fcuk living like that. My biggest concern at the shops is, "is the car gunna have a scratch when I get back". Couldn't imagine walking around thinking the worst may happen any minute. Sorry for you bloke. Must suck for the kids.

It's just really not as big a concern as the news makes it into (it's their interest to make as big a deal out of things as possible and get people excited/scared). I live in the third largest city in the US, and while I am generally an observant/aware person, I don't worry about it that much or spend that much time thinking about it.

It happens here more because we have a lot of people living here.

USA 330 million (#3 in the world behind China and India)
Australia 25 million (#55 in the world)

You've got about as many folks as the New York City metropolitan area spread out in an area that's not too far from the size of our whole country. (2.95million sq miles vs 3.53 million sq miles).

The New York metropolitan area remains, by a significant margin, the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.3 million residents in 2017)[13] and the Combined Statistical Area (23.7 million residents in 2016)

The same goes for Canada (slightly more people than Australia, but still only 38 in the world)

Originally Posted by gordner

This thread makes me glad I live somewhere where the absolute last thought in my mind is I may get shot. Insane that anybody going about their normal, outside of a warzone, day has a necessity to eyeball potential threats and exit routes for when the bullets fly, that is a pathetic way to live.

Maybe if folks in Canada thought about stuff more these things would have been avoided? Sheisse happens anywhere that there are people. The fewer the people and the more spread out they are, the less it happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/americas/canada-murder-mystery-monday/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-shooting-fredericton-4-deaths-police-say-live-updates-2018-08-10/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/canada-dead-14-injured-toronto-shooting-180723051648349.html

A man walked along a Toronto street repeatedly firing a pistol into restaurants and cafes, shooting 15 people and killing two before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police.

apparently not completely safe.

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

It’s got nothing to do with where your house is in relation to the neighbors. If you go to concerts, festivals, movie theatres, the mall, restaurants, Walmart.....you risk getting murdered these days. In this country anyway

Your safe in Canada not because you live far from the dangerous big city, your safe because it’s Canada.....the demographics, history and social and political climate has always been very different than the USA