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The US murder rate isn't normally distributed. It's highly concentrated in a few hotspots, with most of the country living in areas with European murder rates.
by truffdog 5y ago
The US murder rate isn't normally distributed. It's highly concentrated in a few hotspots, with most of the country living in areas with European murder rates.
The news is national though, so you wind up in this weird situation with suburbanites buying guns and worried about urban Chicago a thousand miles away.
- mpweiher 5y ago> The US murder rate isn't normally distributed Neither are the murder rates in other countries. > It's highly concentrated in a few hotspots Same here. > with most of the country living in areas with European murder rates. Nope. You need to compare the non-hotspot areas of the US with the non-hotspot areas of Europe. And you'll see the same difference as before.