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Re:Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs? by phaemon on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:40AM (#8636210)
That's a very odd table. Did you notice that if you sort by Homicide, nearly all the top 20 are in the Americas?
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Re:Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs? by dragonwriter on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:47AM (#8636259)
Its only 75 "countries and dependencies" in a world of something like 190 countries (not counting dependencies).

I suspect that the weighting toward the Americas isn't that the Americas are more violent, but that the Americas happened to host the countries in the intersection of higher gun homicide rates and sufficient stability to collect and report meaningful statistics.

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