Post #965 by very stable genius on the US Policy board

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<<It isn't higher than the rest of the world. The US is 87th in homicides per capita per Wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by...;

Well, just taking this chart at face value, you'd be safer from gun violence if you lived in Somalia, Libya, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Cambodia, etc. etc...Yikes!

Then there's this...
This Wikipage states clearly...
"This article needs to be updated." (June 2022)
"This article does not cite any sources." (June 2022)
Does not include gun death by suicide, or accidental gun related death, only "intentional homicide rate."

Here's a closer, more accurate look at gun deaths in the United States, based on analysis of data from the CDC, the FBI and other sources...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/w...

All the best!
I hope I don't get shot today!

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