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What's weirdest thing about American culture? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just checked wikipedia. Finland's murder rate is 0.982 per 100k. Europe as a whole is 2.1 per 100k. US is 5.763 per 100k. So we are over 5 times as likely to be killed. Who would have guessed that rampant inequality paired with having more guns than people was a bad idea.