America is ranked 3rd in gun violence out of 193 countries. So clearly, America is incredibly unsafe and dangerous…right? However this is where it gets interesting. If you were to remove Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago; America would fall to 189 out 193. Ironically these five cities are liberal run with some of the most strictest gun laws. Perfect example of how politicians can ruin a city.

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Interesting. Do you know of any place where you can compare gun violence by states and other countries?
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Reality Checker 9 months ago
This is interesting, but: 0. Source? 1. Cities don't have border checks, so gun laws are pretty ineffective. 2. Am I also allowed to cherry pick in the other 193 countries? I have a hunch that if I would the US would shoot way back up on the list. 3. Cities tend to be liberal run, so there is some skew here.
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SatsAndSports 9 months ago
Evidence? How do we know you didn't make all of those numbers up?
Every single day in USA police kill unarmed people during "random" traffic stops. Like half the gun deaths in USA are at the hands of police. Also USA has school shootings weekly. It's a culture problem not a gun problem.
How about these 5 + cities? 🤔 This is actually what I find interesting… The cities with the highest rates of gun violence often shift, but based on recent data, some of the top contenders include Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland. Other cities experiencing high rates of gun violence include Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, Alabama. #donttrustverify
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PAKES 9 months ago
But this works for every country. It is called Pareto's law: 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes.
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BTC_P2P 7 months ago
Please show your math, I’m calling bullshit. There are several dozen other extremely violent large cities in the US. I added up: New Orleans, Baltimore, St Louis, Oklahoma City, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Newark, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Birmingham, Cleveland, Phoenix and that totaled 2,271 murders in 2024. There are so many more violent murder-ridden cities in the USA I haven’t accounted for. To put the 2,271 murder figure in perspective, these countries had less murder’s in 2023/2023: Australia (448), Canada (788), Japan (912), Germany (661), Argentina (≈2000), Italy (334). This list could go on and on and on. And I only totaled up homicides from 14 cities. Publish a correction that you’re making shit up.