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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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