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Gun related deaths per 100k in US: 10.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coun
by dpc_pw 11y ago
Gun related deaths per 100k in US: 10.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Suicides using gun per 100k population: 6.7 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm
So already more than half of the original number is not what you would expect.
As a person that moved from Europe, I don't see any gun problem in USA. I see severe economical problems, social problems, racial tensions, ideological tensions. Mass shootings do happen, but they are like airplane crashes - exciting for media and common folks, but rather rare.
For comparison in US cancer death rate per 100k is : 166.4 http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/deathrates/deathrates.html http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/deathrates/deathrates....
When was the last time when "cancer problem in US" reached Hacker News?
- Delmania 11y ago"Mass shootings do happen, but they are like airplane crashes - exciting for media and common folks, but rather rare." In 2015 alone, there have been 355 mass shootings as of the time of this posting. Since 2013 there has been on average one mass shooting a day. How is that rare?
- dpc_pw 11y agoAs counted by anti-gun subreddit, that includes anything even remotely reassembling "mass-shooting" (like robberies, gangs etc.). Not to mention it's not even a credible source by definition... By other sources and definitions it's much, much lower. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-have-become-more-common-in-the-u-s/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-have-beco...