So , let's see what's on Fox's front page after the latest domestic terrorism...

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It is a slippery slope, but there are ways to help prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Whereas this is relatively unusual in much of the developed world, it's unfortunately rather common in the US (esp. before COVID19), due to a number of problems that can be addressed in a wealthy country like the US (which otherwise compares with developing countries for income inequality, lack of regulation, corruption, poor public education funding, poor health standards, the environment, drugs, social care, health care for the 99%, &c).

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It's not preventable though. We're never going to eliminate crime. We can't stop it from happening.

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Agreed, but we also don't have to reinvent the wheel. There are approaches in other countries that have reduced mass shootings.

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The US has the 12th highest number of mass shootings per capita. It seems like we're #1 but when adjusted per capita it seems like it's not us doing something wrong.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes - though comparing per-capita rakings between a country with 332 million and countries that have only 5 million (Norway) or 7 million (Serbia) skews the data in favor of the country that's 100x larger. (It's stats manipulation.) See how that works with 'deaths/1M pop' here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Here is a better assessment:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/05/743579605/how-the-u-s-compares-to-other-countries-in-deaths-from-gun-violence

If you don't like NPR, I can find other sources.

The source you've linked to is considered relatively biased, here:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/world-population-review/

Also, look at the trend in active shooter incidents here:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

Compared with large (150M+) 1st world countries, the US has had a very high number of mass shootings/capita.

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Wow, US is doing pretty good with covid. Belize really needs to get its shit together.

If some percentage of people are just going to go batshit insane, as long as they have access to guns there will be mass shootings and that also makes the per capita very useful looking at that % in comparison to other countries. More people more nuts.

It could have been any source, it goes back to the 2017 data. I don't know I'd trust mediabiascheck to not themselves be biased.

This is a difficult question to answer because there is no single, agreed-upon definition of the term "mass shooting." Definitions can vary depending on factors including the number of victims and the circumstances of the shooting

That was in the pew research ad and I knew I'd seen it before. Funny how often it pops up if you search it.