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Re:Police Start to Reconsider Longstanding Rules on Using Force by rhino369 on Monday May 04, 2015 @06:35PM (#9489711)
You can't just go by population. America is just a vastly more violent nation. America has a 6X higher murder rate.

America has higher handgun ownership, which is a cause of many of the police shootings.

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Re:Police Start to Reconsider Longstanding Rules on Using Force by frandroid on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:03PM (#9489807)
Fine, take Switzerland, where every home pretty much has a rifle...
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Re:Police Start to Reconsider Longstanding Rules on Using Force by vacri on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:50PM (#9490020)
A government-issued rifle kept in the home, with sealed ammunition that is checked and can only be used in peacetime at a training event. A bit different from handguns that can be easily concealed while walking around the streets.

Two-thirds of the US's annual homicides (about 12k total at the moment) are committed with handguns. Homicides with longarms aren't trivial (total firearm is around three quarters, from memory), but they're a much smaller proportion than handgun murders.

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