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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Are Canadians 5.7 times more violent than Australians? Or 19.4 times more violent than Brits? No? Then why are our police officers killing suspects at such a higher rate?
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This chart is dumb. Given the ratio of police shootings that occur when the subject has a firearm, and not the impeccable mothers with knives, is a more meaningful metric not something like
this that ranks countries by the number of guns per person? In this instance we are about double France and we're about a quarter of the US, which more closely aligns with your chart.
Without mentioning the fact that the US has more guns than people the chart means pretty much zero. I understand that in the magical world of this thread there's probably fairy dust that disarms people with firearms but it's still a huge asterisk.