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What is wrong with these statistics?

HippieChick58 9 May 18
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Level 9

We're #1!!!!!

It's all in the spin.

@HippieChick58 You betcha!
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Level 7

Children are getting shot .....the figures do not matter unless they are 0 !!

Simon1 Level 7 May 19, 2018
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Absolutely
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Level 7

It would be prudent to adjust them according to population.

School shootings by nation since year 2000, per 1million population (adjusted down to nearest million):

England: 0
Greece: 0.1
Netherlands: 0.05
Spain: 0.02
India: 0.0007
Argentina: 0.02
Russia: 0.006
China: 0.002
Mexico: 0.03
Australia: 0.2
Canada: 0.1
Germany: 0.06
South Africa: 0.09
USA: 0.6

USA has 3 times more school shootings than its nearest listed "competitor".

8

Level 3

It's Fucked up! There is no way to justify this!

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Level 6

Its the gun control laws! I.e.America doesnt really have any, all the others do.

7

Level 7

Just USA 2nd Amendment gun owners exercising their rights! Right? 😟

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Level 8

This is more accurate. It is from OECD

That graph is useful, but I think it might be more useful if it removed suicides using guns which some of these charts include.

I'm surprised about Finland.

@Ellatynemouth Finland has problems with biker gangs, drugs and high levels of depression. The OCED chart refers only to murders, I believe. Suicide rates score differently, however happy to source check.

@Amisja

Ah! Thank you.

@NotConvinced What are you talking about? Nowhere in that graph does it discuss changes to legislation or anything else for that matter. These are purely statistical data. As Americans you can decide what you will as regards whether the continued loss of children's lives is an acceptable sacrifice for gun ownership. Now acid attacks. This very recent crime of acid attacks appears to been originally brought to UK from African and Asian countries. There have been 800 in the last year, mostly in London. It is not acceptable but a diminishingly low number. The issue here is MASS killings of young people. You would need a lot of acid to kill people on mass. This is a decision for the American people but as a Brit with an American ex and three American children, I am glad we are in UK.

@NotConvinced again bombs legislation regulation? These are just the hard cold facts. Your decision as a nation, not mine
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Level 8

Wow! @HippieChick58 you are good at picking stories, sort of an investigative reporter.

Thank you! I am curious and have some smart friends on FB. Oh yeah, Liberal smart friends.

5

Level 8

Nothing. They are right on target.

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Level 8

Wow!

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Level 8

You will probably hear, there are lies,damn lies,then there is "Statistics"

Coldo Level 8 May 19, 2018
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Level 8

Not sure how accurate that is, as far as I know we have had one here in Oz and New Zealand had one.
[en.wikipedia.org]

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Level 7

Everything below England. ?

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Level 5

The "problem" isn't guns. The problem is the attitude. In every other country people have obligations. Owning a gun is a privilege. Americans have "rights" but no responsibility.

True,
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Level 8

Does that include the recent one?

I think it would be clearer if it was a graph chart.

I can draw a bar chart!

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Level 8

Hmmmm....

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Level 9

Second amendment is what is wrong with the stats.

2

Level 8

it is about right and obviously acceptable

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Level 7

yankee doodle went to town , bought himself a machine gun. the next day he went to school and shot his friends for much fun

Sad. Too often true.
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Level 2

Arm the teachers !!!7!!!

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Level 7

While I am a nontheist, many of these countries have gun laws and some allow guns in citizens hands. This is a systemic problem in the US. It is not just the parents abrogation of parental duty to their children to other agency, or religions that spew hate against anyone other than themselves (and I'm not saying all do this), or our government pushing fear to keep the population in check, or generation anger being passed on to younger generations. It is a combination of all these things, and more. Removing guns isn't going to help.

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