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Originally Posted by Acey
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. |
According to your link, firearm possession in Canada (34.7 guns per 100 people) is not too dissimilar to Norway (28.8). If you are correct, and the number of police killings correlates with firearm ownership, then we could expect that cops in Canada would kill their citizens about 20% more often than cops in Norway. In actuality, Canadian cops use lethal force
410% more often than Norwegian cops.
Oh, and Switzerland, the magical fantasy nation that ammosexuals like to use as a counter-example in every gun control thread because there's a military-grade rifle in almost every Swiss home, reported
zero police killings.