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In reply to the discussion: What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer. [View all]Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)35. Mexico has about 23k homicides a year and that is considered under reporting
The US has about 17k homicides a year for a vastly larger population.
Figure that even if the percentage of those being mass anything is similar, that Mexico has the higher number. Simple math.
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Cattledog
Nov 2017
OP
"GunFacts" is a major NRA propaganda site, so I take their stats with a grain of salt.
Cattledog
Nov 2017
#16
In developed industrialized countries with more or less stable governments
Crunchy Frog
Nov 2017
#22
IMO nothing else is going on. Those who get/have access to guns are the demographic segment...
brush
Nov 2017
#11
So you're saying that a type of person who didn't own guns in the past are now buying guns...
aikoaiko
Nov 2017
#14
Yes, because more people had guns in the past but there were fewer mass shootings.
aikoaiko
Nov 2017
#17
Seems flawed. Millions more people now, millions more guns, millions more with multiple guns.
brush
Nov 2017
#36
As the FBI does not defines mass shooting, I question the credibility of your narrative
Not Ruth
Nov 2017
#41