r/MurderedByWords Aug 05 '19

Murder Murdered by numbers?

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u/JustASexyKurt Aug 05 '19 edited Aug 05 '19

5.30 per 100,000 for the US, 1.20 per 100,000 for the UK

Edit: For everyone saying “well if you took out cities X, Y and Z that number would be way lower”, that’s not how statistics work. Unless you’re eliminating comparable British cities, you’re just trying to skew the numbers in your favour.

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u/RawbGun Aug 05 '19

That's pretty yikes

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u/Indercarnive Aug 05 '19

The rest of Europe is similar. The USA has a murder problem.

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u/TerribleTerryTaint Aug 05 '19

We have a lot of problems. One of them is a percentage of our population has been conditioned to jump to the response of "leave if you don't like it" when these problems are brought up.