VorruMan · 2 points · *
I find the statistics used to back that claim up dubious at best, especially since I've yet to find the data and methodology used to make those statistics up. You are actually saying, that countries where the last shootings happened in 2011 and 2012 respectively, are worse off with gun violence than the US, where there have been more shootings this year than there have been days that have passed? It sounds like they are trying to misrepresent statistics to make things look better than they actually are.
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Fun Fact: I was just anal enough to actually check the numbers myself. By taking all the shootings in Finland and using the same formula crimestatistics had (deaths/pop. in millions/years) I got a death toll of 0.195 for Finland. Now using the same formula I got a death toll of 0,234 for the USA. The sad part is, for Finland I used all deaths by firearms from 2009-2015, but for the USA I used deaths in mass shootings in 2015 alone.
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Fun Fact: I was just anal enough to actually check the numbers myself. By taking all the shootings in Finland and using the same formula crimestatistics had (deaths/pop. in millions/years) I got a death toll of 0.195 for Finland. Now using the same formula I got a death toll of 0,234 for the USA. The sad part is, for Finland I used all deaths by firearms from 2009-2015, but for the USA I used deaths in mass shootings in 2015 alone.
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