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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by Pxtl on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:55PM (#31514314)
Counting articles on Wikipedia isn't exactly scientific. So let's go hard numbers:

US has 10X as many firearms deaths per capita compared to Canada, which implies 100X as absolute value.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2378037/gun-violence-by-the-numbe...

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by refurb on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:18AM (#31514486)
We’re talking mass shootings, not deaths which half are suicides.
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by Pxtl on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:38AM (#31514633)
Firearm homicide was 8X. It's in the same article.
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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by refurb on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:31AM (#31515684)
I thought we were talking about mass shootings?

But murder rates are only 3x the US v Canada.

See the importance of the right statistics?

1000x more firearm deaths, but only 8x more firearm homicides but then 3x more murders.

I would definitely agree the US has a worse murder problem than Canada, but making is purely a gun problem misses the point. Do guns play a role? Sure.

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