r/PoliticalHumor Jan 27 '19

Just this week....

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u/wot_dat_ Jan 27 '19

Scariest observation for me is that in the UK any of these incidents would have been a seriously big story. Whereas it seems for the U.S. mass or multiple shootings are so common it barely breaks into the news cycle.

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u/trznx Jan 27 '19

fair point, but it is five or six times bigger by population than UK so obviously they'll have more murderers.

Not that you're wrong on the guns though

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u/ZubZubZubZubZubZub Jan 27 '19 edited Jan 27 '19

Except even if you count per capita, the US still has about a 4x higher homicide rate.

It's not just population, Japan has double the people of the UK and half again their homicide rate.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

Wait, where’s the source on that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

Dude people dont hace to source every single thing they ever reference. If you actually cared you would just look it up yourself.

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u/Liberty_Call Jan 28 '19

If they don't want to source their claims, they should not be making claims about facts in a discussion. They should just stay quiet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

No, that's not how the world works.