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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by gr2zr4 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:40AM (#31501952)
In USA there are 120.5 guns/100 people AND 3.4 gun murders/100000 people In Canada there are 34.7 guns/100 people AND 0.6 gun murders/100000 people In France there are 19.6 guns/100 people AND 0.4 gun murders/100000 people In Germany there are 19.6 guns/100 people AND 0.1 gun murders/100000 people In Italy there are 14.4 guns/100 people AND 0.3 gun murders/100000 people In England+Wales there are 4.6 guns/100 people AND 0 gun murders/100000 people

Sources: Small Arms Survey, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.·Ownership rates are for 2017. Murder rates for the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and Spain are from 2016; otherwise, the latest available rates are used.

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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by soco on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:17AM (#31504849)
Looks like a similar number of murders/gun, interesting!
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Re:List of school shootings in the United States by laverya on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:30AM (#31505064)
Because these countries are cherrypicked. If your list included places like Mexico, Brazil, Finland and Switzerland you would have a very different idea of the relation between gun ownership and gun homicide rates.

Also, I personally do not care one whit about gun homicide rates. I care about overall homicide rates, and I think most everyone else does too.

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