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> In fact if you remove a single demographic from gun violence statistics, the US becomes one of the top 5 or so safest nations, in spite of the highest rate of

• twofornone 5y ago
  >Did you also remove "a single demographic" from these other nations gun violence statistics? This demographic is unique to the US and a product of its unique history. >If you remove the poorest segment of the US population form all statistics, I'm sure the US is going to look a lot better in many ways compared to the full population of other nations. I don't blame you for believing this but the gun violence rate in this demographic is about an order of magnitude higher than that for other impoverished demographics. In any case I'm not making a statement about them, only pointing out that they distort the overall statistics for the greater US, which has implications for the assertion that gun violence is a widespread problem in the US. Yes, poverty is correlated with [gun] violence, but not nearly to the same degree among all groups of people in the US (and the world).