Fewer firearm-related homicides, new study reports
Posted October 26, 2010 10:31 am.
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There were fewer firearm-related homicides last year, a new study reported.
Police said 179 of Canada’s 610 homicides were committed with a firearm in 2009; that’s 21 fewer than in 2008.
Statistics Canada said that while the general homicide rate remained stable, the firearm-related homicide rate dropped 12 per cent, reversing an upward trend recorded between 2002 and 2008.
Prior to 2002, rates of firearm homicides had been declining since the mid-1970s.
