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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by FRex on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:37AM (#16648503)
First of all, ED seems overly focused on USA/West/China, it doesn't list several arson (I assume that's what Fire Emblem means) and stabbing events (Hack'n'Slash) I personally know of.

Next, I'm assuming that by "mass shootings" you mean the FPS, Single Player category on there (since the only other FPS aka shootings category is Co-op Mode which seems to be almost exclusively terrorism and gangs, not "common people").

Here is the raw data: https://pastebin.com/rfHy5KUu

Here is the aggregate by country: https://pastebin.com/NPi3kELY

USA has 'only' 4.3% of global population but 17 out of 50 top ED loner shootings and one third of deaths and almost half of injuries.

If that's not a phenomenon then I guess nothing is.

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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by lettergram on Thursday March 22, 2018 @10:42AM (#16649059)
That's because we allow our citizens to have guns, which by default heavily skew the stats...

Perhaps I should just publish some results. Seriously, every time I debate a data scientist I just send them to the data. Heat correlates more with mass murder than anything... Like I don't really get it.

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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by FRex on Thursday March 22, 2018 @12:18PM (#16649995)
The comment I replied to quoted those stats and said that mass shootings (not murders, shootings specifically) aren't a US specific phenomenon nor linked to gun availability.

While of course no country can ever be mass shootings free and immune to them since a determined person (ISIS, Breivik, etc.) can always get a gun eventually I was just pointing out that based on the cited stats USA is standing out with regards to frequency (even compared to much more populous China, India, EU+UK+Norway, etc.) so there is some US specific phenomenon related to mass shootings (for whatever reason, gun availability, society, heat, magic, that's beside the point I was making).

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