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Conina on 06 August 2019
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Ganoncrotch said:
pokoko said:

You're telling me, honestly and seriously, that you do not understand that the United States, an area larger than all of Europe, contains environments that are vastly different from one another?  That there are States and cities where violence is much, much more commonplace than others?

So you're telling me, honestly and seriously, that you do not understand that if an average of 12 deaths per 100k is spread over all the states that sounds terrible, but if you are telling me that it is so vast and there are regions where there are 0 deaths per 100k, that must mean that there is another region where the deaths are 24 per 100k, which is the worst, in the world in terms of gun violence by a long shot.

Even the US state with the lowest firearm-related death rate (3.4 per 100k people) is still very high compared to other civilized/wealthy countries. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state

These are the countries with a lower firearm-related death rate than 3.4.... many of them waaaaaaaaay lower:

And the US state with the second lowest firearm-related death rate is already over 4 per 100k people. Only six US staes are below 7.6 per 100k people.