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According to Wikipedia's "Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year" America is at 10.54, compared to countries like Finland and Switzerland wh
by flipp3r 9y ago
According to Wikipedia's "Firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population per year" America is at 10.54, compared to countries like Finland and Switzerland which are at 3.5-ish, it is very high. You can however see America's cause of the gun problem clearly, but you're not allowed to say it out loud; https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Reeves-1215002.png?w=512&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C372px https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Reeves-... You could call it "culture" which the other countries do not have.
- ueushzvzis 9y agoSee you're doing it again. You're only looking at firearm related deaths and not total homicides.
- flipp3r 9y agoAmerica still has about a 4x homicide rate compared to my examples Finland and Switzerland. This is not much different from the gun violence rates per country (&race) You can even pull out approximately the same graph for homicides(Actually, here you go; https://www.theatlas.com/charts/E1pEnFs7e https://www.theatlas.com/charts/E1pEnFs7e ). Did you honestly believe a country can have triple the gun violence of every other western country, but at the same time get away with a low homicide rate?
- lr4444lr 9y agoDoes that number control for the gun-related suicides? Obviously that is not what people mean when they talk about gun violence in the US.