The Chronicle of the DC, 21Jan25: Canada More Deadly Than US Gunfire

I’ve got a big problem with the source of my report today.

Guns Don’t Kill People. Canada Kills People.

Written by Tom Knighton, it was published, ostensibly, to compare the number of deaths due a combination of Canada’s MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) and Canadians succumbing due to delays in obtaining medical care, versus the number of deaths in the US due to gunfire.

The revealing point made, that of clandestine state misanthropy, was that the total number of deaths due to Canadian policy exceeds the total number in the US where a gun was used. At the same time, US population is eight times that of Canada.

Thus, the per capita death rate due to Canadian state involvement is at least octuple that from gunfire in the US. And the latter arises most often from criminal activity whereas the former is entirely that of governmental policies.

What more needs to be said about the data you’ll find at the link? That the contrast between organized and unorganized criminality has drastically blurred?

Fran and Dave and I keep noting: statism has the capacity to be far more deadly than all common criminal activity that ever existed.

Don’t mistake what we see as irony. The state allegedly exists to protect us from the common criminal. How can it not be seen that the value of the social contract has become decidedly valuable for primarily one side of that contract? It ain’t us.

Well, that’s the useful part of this article. Now, let’s move on to my opening complaint.

Emboldened below is what I found offensive. It could have been written and published by Sarah Brady, and the editor at Town Hall let it stand.

The United States has more than eight times the population of Canada, and even massive death and destruction brought about by our gun policy pales in comparison to the number of people the Canadian government managed to kill during that period.

Emphasis added

Were the broken windows policies of the last century still in place, that alone would have prevented the level of death from criminal activity we now see in the US. Who remains unaware that today we have far less law enforcement against hardened criminals, weaker border protection and far more corruption within our governments? So the issue, Mr. Sarah Brady doppelganger, isn’t our gun policy, but our laxity in putting criminals behind bars and executing convicted murderers. The worst of those I think could be seen as unofficial agents of anarcho-tyrants pretending to be public servants. Conquest’s 3rd Law sure seems actively present at the top of law enforcement bureaucracies.

I imagine many of our Gentle readers clearly understand the problem I have both with this writer in passing and with emboldened statism he did help reveal. Both trouble your humble reporter and commentator.

Let me hear if you disagree. Your counter arguments may be informative.