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I disagree with your way of reading the numbers. United states has 38 "Total Fatal Rampage Shooting Incidents (2009-2013)". All other countries has 0, 1 or 2 in
by sanbor 10y ago
I disagree with your way of reading the numbers. United states has 38 "Total Fatal Rampage Shooting Incidents (2009-2013)". All other countries has 0, 1 or 2 incidents. How can dividing the victims per capita can help you understand if this kind of things happen more often in a country than in other?
- barsonme 10y agoNot just per-capita victims. If you read the chart's third column: > Fatal Rampage Shooting Incidents (2009-2013) Per 1,000,000 The U.S. is 0.12, putting it behind Norway (0.19), Finland (0.37), Slovakia (0.19), Israel (0.25), and Switzerland (0.25). Simply looking at the raw number of shootings is misleading at best because: 1. Countries with a larger population are typically at higher risk of more shootings. (The two countries with >= 1/3 as large of a population as the U.S. are Japan and Mexico.) 2. It does not take into account culture or socioeconomic issues (other than only sampling the "Industrialized West") 3. Countries with more firearms will typically have a higher risk or more shootings