On 5/28/2022 12:42 PM, JC wrote:
Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a
subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.
Why Does the U.S. Have So Many Mass Shootings? Research Is Clear: Guns.
Americans advance a lot of theories for why they have so many more gun
deaths than other countries do. The answer is lying in plain sight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iaha3HMDm4diPsSGYyMvE7IaLBibNIomDGSX8QEK78oQ-BzyOBEelF2Dgiuvpaenp0ZIiIzoIb1Xn8z29iFe4EExgLQTzvzLvZjlvr4tgiaMTO0DLqP0XJ1d10x8Y9kdlurxXAPxfraG-dw3M1_2_52VMguRD4GNCSarrK_XUUFTdaCaBHe6AEwU_gIGm2A2I7BtM9TNVlaGlnET3hg4Goj69I6ONMfPqb3KxFIa9OpyPxKSTQudNH1csV3E4vElLxqsqrPrgiMzqe1z_Y3HKZTu9DUo1nMlbsTllrmQnQ4qmR6lGM&smid=em-share
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/Skeptics of gun control sometimes point to a 2016 study. From 2000 and
2014, it found, the United States death rate by mass shooting was 1.5
per one million people. The rate was 1.7 in Switzerland and 3.4 in
Finland, suggesting American mass shootings were not actually so common.//
//
//But the same study found that the United States had 133 mass
shootings. Finland had only two, which killed 18 people, and Switzerland
had one, which killed 14. In short, isolated incidents. So while mass
shootings can happen anywhere, they are only a matter of routine in the
United States./
If I understand that correctly, mass shootings in the US are "routine"
because it's much bigger than Switzerland and Finland (total 14 million)
so they're counting over a much bigger nation (335 million). So the
skeptics have a point. I also wonder why the comparison is just to
Switzerland and Finland...cherry picking? There also seems to be quite a
bit of variation in how mass shootings are counted.
/Average (Mean) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public
Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015)://
//Norway — 1.888//
//Serbia — 0.381//
//France — 0.347//
//Macedonia — 0.337//
//Albania — 0.206//
//Slovakia — 0.185//
//Switzerland — 0.142//
//Finland — 0.132//
//Belgium — 0.128//
//Czech Republic — 0.123//
//United States — 0.089//
//Austria — 0.068//
//Netherlands — 0.051//
//Canada — 0.032//
//England — 0.027//
//Germany — 0.023//
//Russia — 0.012//
//Italy — 0.009//
//In addition, a 2018 CRPC study ranked the U.S. at number sixty-four in
the world in terms of mass shooting rates per capita.
/
However, read the analysis at
*https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country*
which critiques the above and suggests a different statistic
/Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public
Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015)://
//United States — 0.058//
//Albania — 0//
//Austria — 0//
//Belgium — 0//
//Czech Republic — 0//
//Finland — 0//
//France — 0//
//Germany — 0//
//Italy — 0//
//Macedonia — 0//
//Netherlands — 0//
//Norway — 0//
//Russia — 0//
//Serbia — 0//
//Slovakia — 0//
//Switzerland — 0//
//United Kingdom — 0
/That 0 as a median is a little confusing. It just means that for more
than half the years the number was zero/. /It would make more sense to
score the mean-time-between-mass-shootings as the statistic or it's
inverse the rate of mass shootings./
/
Brent
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