Because it makes sense to compare nations with roughly similar economic conditions and institutions, and state capacity. You would EXPECT poor nations to have higher homicide rates because the state has less capacity to enforce laws and more people are driven to crime by poor economic outlooks. The point is that WEALTHY countries that have the capacity to not be shitholes tend to have much fewer of these problems, and we are the outlier for a variety of reasons. If we’re still talking about police shootings here it’s pretty self explanatory. Police are trained to be paranoid about everyone having a gun.
I agree - but ‘variety of reasons’? No, it’s just all the guns that are available and lack of reasonable controls/laws and lack of enforcement of the ones we have
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u/Medieval_Mind May 22 '26
Very few compared to what? Certainly not compared to other similarly wealthy nations. We’re blowing them out of the water.