House minority leader trying to blame video games for mass shootings. Update: Walmart pulls violent video game ads for 2 weeks

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Azzanation said:

Also we cannot compare countries with 40m people to a country with 400m. Its alot easier to control crime with a lower number of citizens and in this case, Australia or Canada make up 1 entire US city. Thats how big the USA is to those countries. Also Canada and Australia have a better educational system or at least invest more into it than the States.

False. You can extrapolate data mathematically to make a comparison of countries with 40~ million people to a country with 400~ million people accurately... Which is partly why terms like "Per Capita" actually exist.

I just had to quote, that did make me chuckle a small bit, the logic of "you can't work out the difference that happens when you multiply a figure by 10" I mean... I think it's one of the easiest math asks in this whole thread, you skip the decimal point one right or one left if you want to see how the number would match up in the other region. It's not like you have one cop frantically trying to oversee 400m people.

--HARD MATH WARNING --

Numbers for thought from Quora in relation to Cops.

"Approximately 850,000 local, county and state officers. Add in about another 80,000 federal officers of some agency, including the FBI. With civilian support personnel, the number is over 1.1 million."

In the USA with a population of 327.2m (not 400m)

As per google result with the European Union (not the continent of Europe)

1.6 million police officers

For a population of 513.5m people

Meaning in the States you get 1 cop per 297.45 people

And in Europe you get 1 cop per 320.93 people

So each US cop has around 23 less people to watch over.

But hey! For those numbers to work you would have to concede to math being a thing that exists!

Also on the topic of this there was a rather good Jim Sterling video, he mostly goes into how this should always have been a news story which was ignored and not argued about as the basis of it was so flawed and dis-proven years ago as to not be worthy of the media attention and online attention that it sadly got.

It could be worth a watch if interested. Jim can be rather hit or miss at times.