"*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 …
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(Emphasis mine.) This article is a goldmine of Fox Butterfieldisms. "The U.S. gun violence death rate is also higher than in nearly all countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including many that are among the world's poorest." Yes, because the poorest use machetes.
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The best chart here, though, is this one, which is ridiculous in many ways. The main problem is that it covers a very short period and is therefore biased toward tiny countries. The population of Oman is 4.4 million, Singapore is 5.6 million, and Iceland is 350 thousand.pic.twitter.com/yEVgfcBv4s
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This chart is telling you that Oman had two 'violent gun deaths' in 2017, Singapore had one, and Iceland had...uh...1/4th of a death. Somehow. Using a single year for your analysis means the bottom of the list will have a lot of tiny countries that got lucky.
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One footnote (out of many I could add here): Iceland is swimming in guns.https://www.ibtimes.com/iceland-plenty-guns-hardly-any-violence-1021958 …
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Second footnote: To illustrate my point about the 'burstiness' of the rate in small countries, here's a UN study on global homicide from 2011: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/Homicide/Globa_study_on_homicide_2011_web.pdf … Go to page 106 and look at Anguilla -- it's the first row under 'Caribbean'.
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Anguilla's yearly murder rate per 100k, starting in 1995 and ending in 2008: 10.2, 0, 9.8, 0, 0, 9.0, 16.7, 15.9, 7.6, 7.4, 28.6, 27.8, 6.8 Some years it's a paradise, other years it's a war zone? No! Its population is less than fifteen thousand, that's all.
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Likewise, Iceland's rate varies between 0 and 1.9 (p. 111). Doesn't break out gun murders, but Iceland's swimming in them as already noted, so... Point is, using a short interval and aggregating the top (bottom) ten is going to amplify noise. It's a terrible basis of comparison.
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