Gun-Related Violent Crime in Canada Has Risen 81 Percent in Past 15 Years

Published on January 30, 2024

Violent crime involving guns continues to rise in Canada, representing a larger share than ever before of the country’s homicides, attempted murders, aggravated assaults, and gang-related crimes, according to a new Statistics Canada report. Violent crimes involving firearms have risen nearly 9 percent in Canada between 2021 and 2022 and are up 81 percent overall since StatCan started compiling data on such crimes in 2009. “The increase in firearm-related violent crimes in 2022 is the continuation of an upward trend that began in 2013,” the report reads. “Since then, the rate of firearm-related violent crime has increased 55 percent, which is larger than the increase in violent crime overall, [up] 24 percent.”...

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