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

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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.