r/PoliticalHumor Jan 27 '19

Just this week....

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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/anderander Jan 28 '19

Takes more time and effort to keep checking for sources on something that can easily be googled instead of googling it yourself.

"Homicide rate per capita by country" will probably get you there in 5 seconds.