Chicago and guns

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Originally Posted by Orruar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ah, the idiocy continues unabated. Do you really think they were making a good point by suggesting mass killings don't happen regularly outside the US? Don't tell that to Norway, who has the highest per capita deaths from mass shootings in the past 20 years, or Finland, who comes in 2nd. And both have stricter gun control laws than the US.

How about you stop cherry-picking anomalous examples and include the rest of the developed nations that comprise the data?

Norway has a population of only 5 million people, and Breivik's spree was devastating, killing or wounding hundreds. 25% of Norway's population knew a victim affected by the attacks; of course their per capita mass shooting deaths are going to be fucked up. And what do the rest of the top 10 countries have in common? Though they may have stricter laws on gun control, they nonetheless have high rates of legal gun ownership.

But they all pale in comparison to the USA, where we own 88.8 guns per 100 people.

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Aren't all these guns supposed to be keeping us safe? Why is there still so much crime?

Anyway, gun control isn't the solution. We have a fucked up, self-centered, excessively individualistic culture that breeds alienation, and alienation seems to lead to spree killings.