Guns from the Government

In a study relating primarily to guns coming from the US, some interesting numbers and claims come out regarding to exactly where the international criminals get their armaments from:

"'insiders' illegally sold over 3000 firearms recovered in crime or surrendered in amnesties to the Metropolitan Toronto Police Service."

"Still less is known about the third source of weapons, the Mexican security forces themselves. The Small Arms Survey 2008 showed that weapons diverted from police and armed forces are a major and sometimes the main source of illicit weapons in many countries."

"Some weapons used in Mexican crimes such as grenades, RPGs and fully automatic weapons are less easy to acquire in the US, and have probably arrived from elsewhere."

Basically admitting that the US isn't really the main problem but their own governments and authority figures.

"The authors speculate US authorities would not only have to stem the supply of smuggled weapons from the US, but also other potential sources to successfully block the flow of deadly arms to criminals and criminal organizations."

Which would entail taking over the gov'ts of Canada, Mexico and numerous other countries. I'm sure that would fly.

Yet, even with millions more firearms being made every year in the US and the claims that "gun crime is reaching 'epidemic' levels"( according to those who don't bother looking at actual crime numbers) we read:

The rate of gun homicide in Canada is statistically low and falling

Another interesting statistic is this:

Toronto, a city with 2.8 million people hit 52 gun homicides in 2005

Chicago, a city w/ a population of 2.7 million, had 449 homicides (total) in 2005. Handguns and most long guns are banned there w/ full licensing and registration of what is allowed.

The rest of the state, where firearms are common, has murder rates only slightly higher than Canada (IL: ~3.0, CA: ~2.0).