Yet when one compare’s Canada’s Maritime provinces to the neighbouring U.S. states, this is what Wikipedia reveals:
2016 homicide rates for the Maritimes:
New Brunswick: 1.45/100,000 people
Nova Scotia: 1.37/100,000
Newfoundland: 1.32/100,000
Prince Edward Island: 0
Neighbouring or nearby American states for 2016:
Maine: 1.5/100,000 people (1.6/100,000 in 2014)
New Hampshire: 1.3/100,000 (0.9/100,000 in 2014)
Vermont: 2.2/100,000 (1.6/100,000 in 2014)
Massachusetts (note with stricter laws than the above three states) 2.0/100,000 (2.0/100,000 in 2014 as well).
It is quite common for neighbouring U.S. states to have homicide rates close to (or even in a few instances lower) than the neighbouring Canadian provinces and that many of these states (excluding New York and Massachusetts) have very casual firearms laws (particularly the Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine region even after Vermont recently adopted some nominal restrictions and that that was not done without a great deal of controversy).
There’s a tiny town in New Brunswick called Minto where 3 people were murdered over the past year. Up until today, that was the murder capital of NB. That’s a rate of 1 murder for every 867 people. That translates to a rate of about 115.3/100,000 people.