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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by Simon_says on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:03PM (#14766390)
I'm not going to read the article, but I predict that those countries are ones with fewer guns per capita than the US. This is an easy bet to make, because the US has wayyyy more guns than any other country.
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by rayiner on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:41PM (#14766584)
Maybe read the article? Some of the countries on the list are disarmed (UK, Ireland). Some (Iceland, Norway) have quite a lot of guns.
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by scottLobster on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:48PM (#14766819)
Ha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...

Norway has 31.3 guns per capita. Iceland has 30.3. The US has 112.6.

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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by rayiner on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:17PM (#14766934)
Sure, that's fewer than the US, but it's still quite a lot in absolute terms. It's high enough rate where a cop would routinely encounter armed people.
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Re:What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing by kaspiCZ on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:28AM (#14767721)
"These numbers do not clarify which percentage of the population owns those guns." from the very same source. You cannot reliably draw conclusions about the likelihood of encountering an armed citizen.
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