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  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    1 year ago

    And what EU country is rolling in success right now?

    If you’re going to walk into a conversation and the only thing you have to add is “The US truly seems like a failed state from the outside.” You’re not actually going to further that conversation at all.

    Also it is only more worrying that the problem is left unadressed since 25 years.

    What is unaddressed? What problem do you think exists here? Every time I see this argument it’s always stupidly phrased. The UK has lower rates therefore it must be gun control…

    Look at the intentional homicide rates… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

    Notice something? It’s South America that’s completely fucked. If we ban guns in the US… nothing stops that shit from proliferating into the USA on the southern border. Our issues are more handled with better border controls and increase mental welfare. Most violence that happens here is gang violence.

    But for one moment let’s look at this list. Notice the British Virgin Islands place on this list… Very similar controls to Britain proper… but has a 2 point higher rate than the USA…

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      1 year ago

      The issue of school shootings, and other acts of violence with the sole intent to kill random people. These things happen about once in a decade in most western countries.

      In the US they happen all the fucking time. Especially that people go out of their way to murder a bunch of elementary kids is something happening extremely rarely in other countries.Not so in the US.

      In no point did i argue about the particular reasons or solutions, but it is evident that the US is really fucked up in this regard.

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        1 year ago

        The issue of school shootings, and other acts of violence with the sole intent to kill random people. These things happen about once in a decade in most western countries.

        Uhh… I already addressed this… The link, if you had read it shows homicide rates per country. Sort by rate, look where your country is compared to the USA… then compared to some other “western” countries. Sort by Region/Subregion… Allow yourself to think about why the US might have problems. The US does have higher rates… The EU itself is surrounded

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_Kingdom
        Not only are mass shootings common…

        In no point did i argue about the particular reasons or solutions,

        Correct, and I never said you did. I said that the argument I always hear from people who make claims like the USA is fucked up is bullshit. Showing an example of a country over here that’s ruled by Britain with British law, doing significantly worse than the USA does. Almost like it’s different over here. Probably because the EU is buffered from the third world countries… while the USA is definitely not.

        but it is evident that the US is really fucked up in this regard.

        It’s really not. But see, you never elaborated on what is “unaddressed” either. So there’s no way to further this discussion is there?

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          1 year ago

          You cannot use overall homicide rates as an indicator for mass shootings.Of course a high homicide rate is a problem in itself, vut it is a different quality, when two drug gangs shoot each other up over a deal gone wrong than someone just running into a school killing two dozen kids

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            You cannot use overall homicide rates as an indicator for mass shootings.

            Good think the source is specifically mass shootings?

            And yes you can treat one countries overall homicide rates as relevant to anothers… Just because you lower gun related incidents doesn’t mean that it actually affected much of anything when those numbers simply transfer to other forms of homicide. Rates in general have been going down overtime in all “western” countries… at effectively the same rates… Gun laws have not made any significant effect as far as I’ve ever seen.

            than someone just running into a school killing two dozen kids

            Except EVERY source cited against anything I’ve ever said has ALWAYS been “well theres 600+ mass shootings in the USA this year”… when there’s like 20 that are actually school related. And yeah 20 is bad and sad… but when other countries have 1 or 2 and we’re 10x+ bigger than those countries… it’s literally on PAR per capita.

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                1 year ago

                we have 84 Million people

                So either Turkey or Germany.

                I will assume Germany…

                As of 2021 has an intentional homicide rate of 0.8 currently… (https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/murder-homicide-rate random quick google)

                We see a blip UP in 1995 and a leveling out starting around 2008… and a jump in 2016… and a downward trend again.

                Which is basically the same as the USA… https://www.statista.com/statistics/187592/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-since-1950/ (random quick google)

                The trend has been downwards at a slow pace everywhere… (lets ignore the covid timeframe overall… That’s a different issue and we all know that it is). None of it lines up with ANY restrictions on guns. So if banning things doesn’t trend the line down more than the overall world is already trending down… Then overall homicide didn’t change outside of the typical trend. It stands to reason that banning the guns in that case didn’t save any lives… Just shifted the deaths to other forms of death, and only took away your right to have guns…

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              All data taken from Wikipedia.

              The US compared to the UK has had ~13.6 more shootings and ~29.4 more injured/dead in the last 23 years.
              The population in the US is ~5 times bigger than in the UK. I would not call that it’s literally on PAR per capita, I would call that a whole lot more.

              UK population: 66,971,411
              Mass shootings:

              Year Shootings Injured and dead (total)
              2020s 8 41 injured or dead (total)
              2010s 9 67 injured or dead (total)
              2000s 1 5 injured or dead (total)
              18 shootings and 113 injured or dead in 23 years

              US population: 333,287,557 (~5 times more than in the UK)
              Mass shootings:

              Year Shootings Injured and dead (total)
              2023 24 270+ injured or dead (total) This includes the most recent shooting, thus the plus sign. (This is more shootings and injured in one year in the US, than the last 20 years in the UK).
              2022 24 340 injured or dead (total)
              2021 14 144 injured or dead (total)
              2020 8 59 injured or dead (total)
              2019 18 223 injured or dead (total)
              2018 18 232 injured or dead (total)
              2017 17 663 injured or dead (total) (61 dead, 411 injured in the Las Vegas shooting, that leaves 191 total)
              2016 12 197 injured or dead (total)
              2015 13 159 injured or dead (total)
              2014 5 60 injured or dead (total)
              2013 6 52 injured or dead (total)
              2012 14 202 injured or dead (total)
              2011 6 66 injured or dead (total)
              2010 6 45 injured or dead (total)
              2000s 59 608 injured or dead (total)
              244 shootings and 3320 injured or dead in 23 years

              I cannot find similar data from Europe as a whole.

              Sources:
              United_States (Wikipedia)
              List of mass shootings in the United States (Wikipedia)
              United Kingdom (Wikipedia)
              List of mass shootings in the United Kingdom (Wikipedia)