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This whole thread is a just list of people eliminating confounding variables > Social media >> All countries have that > Violent video games >> All other co
by cuteboy19 4y ago
This whole thread is a just list of people eliminating confounding variables
> Social media
>> All countries have that
> Violent video games
>> All other countries have that
> Media reporting on violence
>> All other countries have that
> Mental illness
>> Other countries have it worse
> Lack of Religion
>> Some other countries have that
At some point we are left with just one variable that is different from these other countries
- justanorherhack 4y agoLots of other countries have firearms and don’t have school shootings. Switzerland and Israel come to mind.
- netfortius 4y ago
- mrguyorama 4y agoBoth those countries require everyone to experience military service, where such a gun is used as a tool to kill. There's much less of a "gun culture" in those countries because guns aren't cool, everyone has used one, everyone is familiar, everyone understands what they are for, namely protection of the country as a whole. If the alternative to making guns much harder to access is to conscript everyone in the country for a few years to try and beat the gun culture out of them, good freakin luck
- nothingisbad 4y agoPer wikipedia[0], the US has an estimated 120 guns per 100 citizens. Switzerland, the number is 27.6, Israel the number is 6.7. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
- bko 4y agoUS is 59th in murder rate. A lot of these countries have all those things + restrictive gun laws. You can't have a theory and just arbitrarily section off over 50% of countries and test your theory on that subset https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranking/countries-by-murder-rate/ https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranking/countries-by-murder-r...
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe other 58 are either extremely poor or in an actual war/insurgency. I don't deny that poverty and war cause violence but the US does not have those variables