Other ways to display this data would be:
- group Europe into 1
- split the US into states
- display error bars
- take 95% lower bound assuming a normal distribution
https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
It's also the only country in the West were regularly every year there are a few mass shootings.
That's the real problem, they have normalized it, all other countries have usually zero mass shootings for many consecutive years.
What matters is that USA can't stop them.
> Of course the US is less likely to have shooting-free years
Not bigger than
Albania + Austria + Belgium + Czech Republic + Finland + France + Germany + Italy + Macedonia + Netherlands + Norway + Serbia + Slovakia + Switzerland + United Kingdom = ~363 million people
USA = ~330 million people
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Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People:
Team Europe (363 million people) = 0
USA (330 million people) = 0.058
p.s. read the study I linked
The stats are deaths per million people.
Note that this is true even though each mini-US continues to have the same per-capita shooting death rate.
But that's absurd, since each of those mini-US countries has the same problem as the whole US. Picking the median has just hidden the data. I suggested 4 alternative ways to express this.
Measuring smaller regions can lead to an increase of the median.
For example Norway only had one mass shooting in the past 10 years, while there have been 25 major mass shootings in the US in the same time span, in 2022 alone there have been 22 mass shootings in USA[1], but only 3 in the entire Europe - 746 million people -, including one in Russia and one in Ukraine, and only 1 (one) in EU[2] (so basically in US it's 22x more likely for a mass shooting to happen compared to Ukraine, Russia and the whole EU, at least in 2022, until now)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2022_mass_shootings_i...
But, being Norway so small (there are 5 million people there) if we count the median for Norway only it goes up to 1.888 deaths/million over the 10 years, even though it's been a single event, perpetrated basically by a nazi terrorist, it's not a systemic problem like in the US, where normal regular people buy a shotgun and start shooting at everybody, including kids at school.
Remember: we are counting incidents that kill people, so having consecutive years without mass shootings it's something all developed countries should try to achieve, it's not just stats and numbers, it's people lives!
In my country that counts 60 million residents (and over 9 million guns), there have been only 3 (three) public mass shootings since 1982! one of which perpetrated by the clan Casalesi (a mob family) in a conflict between Camorra and African criminal gangs, another was the attack on the Great Synagogue of Rome perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists and only one by a private citizen, with mental health issues.
Spot the differences with US.
the reasoning is well explained in the link I posted.
The main reason, for those who don't want to read it or went straight to comments without reading my post in full, is that
*The data itself supports this interpretation, as the United States endured mass shooting events all seven years, but the other countries all experienced mass shootings during only one or two years. Thus, in a typical year, most countries experience zero mass shooting deaths, while the US experiences at least a few.*
If that doesn't scare people enough, maybe this[1] or this[2] will.
[1] https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/number-mass-...
[2] https://yubanet.com/usa/over-70-of-mass-shootings-in-develop...
Over 70% of mass shootings in developed countries happen in the US, international analysis shows
“Mass shootings are a uniquely American problem, particularly in relation to other developed countries.”
phat = 1.0*pos/n