Mass shooting Las Vegas

[Farsala]

Hiku said:

Farsala said:
People comparing Gun violence in USA to less population dense countries like Australia and Canada is ridiculous.

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Not if you account for population, which I do.
For example, police killed a total of two people in Norway between 2002 - 2015. (That's when the article was published.)
And in 2015 they fired their guns a tiotal of 2 times and 0 people were killed.
In the US, there have been 737 reported police killings so far just this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2017/

2 killings in 13 years in Norway.
737 just this year so far in the US. (It will probably reach around 1000 by the end of the year, like it did last year and the year before that.)

Needless to say, the population difference between Norway and USA is not 7000 times larger. It's 62 times larger.

Don't think you got the point. That is using skewed statistics to paint a narrative. When I could easily do the same thing in the opposite way.

The question is why only police? Why not blame poverty instead of guns? Why not take into account density (which also contributes to poverty)? etc. etc.

FYI I don't even really support guns, its just the arguments seem weak.