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Sweden had a total of 360 shootings and 62 firearm homicides last year. In a country with 10 million people. That's roughly the size of North Carolina where t

Sweden had a total of 360 shootings and 62 firearm homicides last year. In a country with 10 million people. That's roughly the size of North Carolina where they have an average of 1,300 shootings and ~530 firearm homicides. Their gun control seems to be pretty effective!

esperent 3y ago
The US is the 32nd worst country in the world for gun violence, with 4.12 incidents per 100k population per year. That's a terrible comparison. You should compare it to other countries instead. To me, an Irish person (ranked 157 at 0.18 per 100k) living in Vietnam (ranked 173 at 0.12 incidents per 100k), the gun violence in Sweden sounds shockingly high. Although it's actually only a bit higher than Ireland at position 149, 0.25 per 100k. https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country/#gun-violence-by-country https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country...
atdrummond 3y ago
Primarily due to demographics and not gun laws. Look at the rates of homicides by firearm for White Americans and they’re within the same order of magnitude as European nations. This is a conversation that is verboten in the US because people assume that it means you believe that crime must be intrinsic to race, even though this statistic is actually fully compatible with the liberal orthodoxy regarding the disparate impact of government policy on American Black people.
- lostlogin 3y ago
  Is the divide black/white or rich/poor? Inequality seems a driver for badness.
  - atdrummond 3y ago
    There is always a gap between rich and poor on violent crime like homicides but the cross racial gap persists (in the US) at any point along the continuum of SES.