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> Sweden and the usa are quite similar for gun homicide. Moreover, they are for exactly the same reason. Eh? Sweden has 1.2 intentional homicide per 100,000 p
by yongjik 4y ago
> Sweden and the usa are quite similar for gun homicide. Moreover, they are for exactly the same reason.
Eh? Sweden has 1.2 intentional homicide per 100,000 people. The US has 6.3 [1].
France and the UK have 1.2, Germany has 0.8, Japan has 0.3.
The US has 5.8 homicides using firearms only [2].
Fun(?) fact: in the US, about 1,000 per year are killed by police [3], which amounts to about 0.3 per 100,000. An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality_in_the_United...
- njdvndsjkvn 4y ago>Fun(?) fact: in the US, about 1,000 per year are killed by police [3], which amounts to about 0.3 per 100,000. An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer. This is a direct result of the larger population of armed murders in the US. "An American is about as likely to be killed by police as a Japanese person is to be killed by a murderer" is only true when you include armed robbers and murderers in the data.
- incomingpain 4y agoThe whole US is a violent place because of high immigration numbers debate is kind of beside the point. Who is more violent is kind of not that relevant. The point of the post is the other stuff moreso.