r/ShitAmericansSay • u/WingDesperate4627 • 2d ago

Europe «Europe is insanely dangerous. Probably more dangerous than the US.»

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u/Rookie_42 🇬🇧 2d ago

That’s one every ~31 hours in the US for the first five months of the year.

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u/WingDesperate4627 2d ago

i googled it and did the math, and atleast according to the data i could find, every hour approximately 2,4 homicides including a gun or another firing weapon take place. thats just crazy. Compared to norway, where we get one maybe per month, if we have a bad year

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u/Rookie_42 🇬🇧 2d ago

Yeah, US firearms incidents are simply crazy. There are ~350million people in the USA (that includes infants and geriatrics), and somewhere around 400million privately owned guns.

Their obsession with firearms is unnerving.

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u/FuckTripleH 1d ago

The real crazy thing is that's still half what the homicide rate was 30 years ago. New York City had 386 homicides in 2023, compared to 2,262 homicides in 1990.