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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by welshwelsh on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:36PM (#31514178)
It's not appropriate to compare the United States to Afghanistan or Sudan. Better to pick countries with similar GDP per capita.

Switzerland is a good point of comparison; they have about half as many guns per capita as the US which includes military-grade weapons, but no mass shootings.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by mahastore on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:53PM (#31514295)
Yes but USA population is 329 Million , Switzerland 8 million. Switzerland has the highest number of gun deaths in Europe.

Source: google.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by welshwelsh on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:52PM (#31522065)
That's true, but additional gun deaths in Switzerland are suicides. Gun homicides in Switzerland are below the EU average.
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