"*With the casualties due to armed conflicts factored out*, even in conflict-ridden regions such as the Middle East, the U.S. rate is worse." If you ignore the ways young men shoot each other in the Middle East, the US rate is worse. AYFKMhttps://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/09/666209430/deaths-from-gun-violence-how-the-u-s-compares-with-the-rest-of-the-world …
Then picking out the lowest rates in a given year is meaningless, because some number of them are going to get 'lucky'. The chart is comparing the US rate (large population, therefore relatively robust) to lottery winners. That's the stupid.
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This list compares the lowest ten rates in the world to the US. There are plenty of tiny countries that got unlucky in the opposite way -- and they're not the bottom ten entries on the list, because of that! Come the fuck on.
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Also note, to repeat, that Iceland's rate is literally a mistake, and cannot be 0.07. In other years its (total) murder rate has been as high as 1.8/100k. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564 …)
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