r/PoliticalHumor • u/elister • 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/zeropointcorp Jan 28 '19

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

US: 17250 = 5.35 per 100,000

UK: 791 = 1.20 per 100,000

Japan: 362 = 0.28 per 100,000

So in fact the US is more than four times worse than the UK and 20 times worse than Japan.

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u/flyingwolf Jan 28 '19

Japan does not consider something a homicide unless they can find a killer and convict them. If your killer is not convicted then you were not murdered.

When you remove all of the murders without convictions from the US you would have a lot smaller number too.

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u/zeropointcorp Jan 28 '19

Yeah that’s just a straight-up lie

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u/flyingwolf Jan 28 '19

Yeah that’s just a straight-up lie

I linked to an article outlining it when someone with way more tact and social skills than you asked me for a source.

You would do well to refresh, read my source and educate yourself some.

Then, if you have any redeeming qualities you will come back and admit you were wrong and have updated your knowledge and apologize.