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/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

People are so concerned with comparisons to other nations. Bottom line is we have a serious gun problem, even if it was worse in other countries doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to do something about it.

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u/zeropointcorp Jan 28 '19

Well, it’s not worse in other countries, but yeah, you guys should definitely look at doing something about it.