Compared to the U.S., breast cancer mortality is 9% higher in Canada (according to the government statisticsof each country), 52% higher in Germany and 88% higher in the United Kingdom (according to studies published in Lancet Oncology).
Legal long guns were used in 11% of killings that year, according to StatisticsCanada, while illegal weapons like sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, which by definition cannot be registered, were used in another 12%.
The overall suicide rate fell by 2% between 1995 and 2009, according to StatisticsCanada, but gun deaths only average about 16% of suicides and a decline in gun deaths was almost entirely made up by increases in hangings.