"*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 …
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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Come on! To have a fair chance of having 0 events/year, the actual long-term average rate cannot be in the double digits. And Oman and Singapore are more than 1/100th of the US population (giving you a floor on the rate). Also in that list Japan (126m) and Indonesia (264m)!
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