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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
The US has 60x the population of Norway, whose data is heavily skewed by the Anders Brevik shooting of 2011 that killed 77 people. If you do the math, imagine that 1 lone shooter killed 4,620 people. They shouldn't even be included in this list.
Macedonia and Albania have populations around 2 million, so if you do any kind of statistic on a per million basis, it's going to inflate anything you want to measure. They don't have populations statistically significant enough to analyze figures of this magnitude.
France had the Paris Attacks in 2015 where Islamic terrorists killed 130 people. The US populations is roughly 5 times the population of France, so again, try to imagine a similar mass shooting event that killed between 600-700 people. Lists like these are intentionally deceptive because singular events end up skewing the average for an entire country and making an issue seem worse than it is.
I highly doubt the Switzerland figure since multiple European news outlets are saying there hasn't been a mass shooting there since 2001. And do we really want to compare ourselves to countries like Serbia and Slovakia?
This whole post is bogus propaganda. The study he's citing comes from a pro-gun activist group.
Macedonia and Albania have populations around 2 million, so if you do any kind of statistic on a per million basis, it's going to inflate anything you want to measure. They don't have populations statistically significant enough to analyze figures of this magnitude.
France had the Paris Attacks in 2015 where Islamic terrorists killed 130 people. The US populations is roughly 5 times the population of France, so again, try to imagine a similar mass shooting event that killed between 600-700 people. Lists like these are intentionally deceptive because singular events end up skewing the average for an entire country and making an issue seem worse than it is.
I highly doubt the Switzerland figure since multiple European news outlets are saying there hasn't been a mass shooting there since 2001. And do we really want to compare ourselves to countries like Serbia and Slovakia?
This whole post is bogus propaganda. The study he's citing comes from a pro-gun activist group.