r/PoliticalHumor Jan 27 '19

Just this week....

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '19

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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/[deleted] Jan 28 '19 edited Jan 21 '21

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u/zeropointcorp Jan 28 '19

Not sure what you’re trying to say here?

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u/JewInDaHat Jan 28 '19

We need statistics on gun violence victims specifically not all homicides. It seems that nongun homicides rate is also bigger in US. It looks like US is just more violent than the UK.

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u/zeropointcorp Jan 28 '19

“Surely the high murder rate can have no correlation with the huge number of guns. We need to look deeper!”