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No, it's not. I think what happens is that if you take a national average and compare it's still higher, but not overly so. But there is variability in those numbers. Atlanta has a murder rate of 17 per 100k vs 2 per 100k for Toronto, and 0.5 per 100k for Oslo.

>but in the US the crime is WAY deadlier due to all of the guns. Canada is somewhere in the middle.

That doesn't matter. Cops don't set gun policy. They have to deal with it. Just as cops don't cause vagrancy in cities like LA and San Fran (which usually results from mental illness and/or drug addiction), but they still have to deal with it (because those cities and states won't).