Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers

Re:Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers by Veratyr on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:18AM (#15455831)

Take Australia as another example of a country where nobody is allowed to have guns (well they are but they need a good reason). The intentional homicide rate is 1/5th of what it is in the US.

Cherry picking examples doesn't really bring much to the discussion.

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Re:Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers by Turing_Machine on Thursday October 12, 2017 @04:43AM (#15456545)

The anti-gun side cites Australia all the time. You don't get to accuse him of "cherry picking" for citing a counterexample.

If you pull up the list of countries with the highest murder rates, you'll discover that virtually all of them have stringent gun control laws.

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Re:Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers by slamdance on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:24AM (#15456924)

...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Australia

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Re:Psychiatrists Can’t Stop Mass Killers by Veratyr on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:24PM (#15459087)

The rates I'm comparing are per 10k people, so they take this into account.

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