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US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Have you done the maths, or are you guessing? For the rate to be equal, there must have been 220 mass shooting in the US since 1994, wich is the earliest mass shootings on this list.

(332 mil / 6mil) X 4 mass shootings registered since 1994

Notice it is SINCE 1994. I believe there are double this EVERY year in the US. The actual comparison is 15000 (mass) shootings Vs 220 (adjusted to reflect the population) making it 70! Times higher in the US, after accounting for the population differences

So you are not correct when you say it is higher in Denmark.

Also note that this is a comparison for mass shootings. Gun violence in general is even more extreme

This is a VERY rough comparison simply to prove you wrong, but there is a good article about this, comparing Denmark and the US here

https://www.desifacts.org/policy-law/gun-laws-and-denmark

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