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submitted 11 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/clevercomebacks@feddit.uk

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago (15 children)

The murder rate in the USA is very high compared to its peers, at 6.383 per 100,000. Canada, for example, has a rate which is almost three times lower at 2.273 per 100,000.

Brazil has a murder rate of 20.606 per 100,000. I think I'll stick with our tipping culture and lack of public health system.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Thank goodness this was downvoted! It’s so offensive. Or something. 🙄

Why so high here vs. Canadia?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

That's an interesting question. People like to blame guns, but

The United States’ homicide rate of 3.8 is clearly higher than that of eg France (1.0), Germany (0.8), Australia (1.1), or Canada (1.4). However, as per the FBI, only 11,208 of our 16,121 murders were committed with firearms, eg 69%. By my calculations, that means our nonfirearm murder rate is 1.2. In other words, our non-firearm homicide rate alone is higher than France, Germany, and Australia’s total homicide rate.

That's from here, which is an interesting but long discussion of the topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/10/guns-and-states-2-son-of-a-gun/

Edit: I'm not saying guns aren't part of the explanation, but they don't appear to account for the majority of the difference.

[–] MBM 4 points 11 months ago

Ah, SSC. I was going to make a joke about how it'll get blamed on ~~black people~~ Human Biodiversity, but Scott actually does

And this is murder rate by state correlated with percent black population:

This would seem to support the “culture of violence” theory.

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