• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    They’ve had six shooting deaths in this entire year.

    America has had 35,000

    Pretty sure the problem is proximity to America. Where do you think those guns in central/south America are coming from?

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      11 months ago

      You’re not looking at per capita rates are you? Way to drop the ball there.

      their population is ~32,000, USA is about 11,000x bigger. 6*11000 = 66000, or about double the American rate!

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        11 months ago

        … more people have been shot to death in America than the island’s entire population! Using per capita on such wildly different population sizes is disingenuous - and This is still clearly due to proximity to America. Where do you think those guns were made? Where do you think the ammo was made?

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          11 months ago

          Using per capita on such wildly different population sizes is disingenuous

          Using raw numbers is many times worse than comparing per capita. It’s not like we’re talking about an n<10,000. They’re statistically relevant.

          and This is still clearly due to proximity to America.

          Ah yes! Must be America’s fault. That’s why the numbers get worse the further away from America you go. Totally, we project through more than 8 countries to affect Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia. Man… Good thing EU has dozens of countries to go through in order to get to their problem countries like Nigeria, and SA.

          https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/violent-crime-rates-by-country