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by InCityDreams 1455 days ago
"...even if you have astonishingly low gun crime in Europe...."

Er, no.

You have astonishingly high gun crime in the States.

Sorry 'bout that.

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You're getting downvoted of course, but it is true - the US is the outlier among rich nations.

Per capita, the US is just behind Panama; in absolute numbers, Brazil is ahead by about 14%.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-viole...

Comparing just to other rich countries shows stark differences:

https://www.healthdata.org/acting-data/gun-violence-united-s...

It isn't even close.

Our gun crime rates per gun are flabbergastingly low. Our gun crime rates per capita are excellent, except in some of the largest cities.
We have lots of bugs in our product, but you will be happy to hear that our ratio of bug per line of code is excellent!

Also US numbers per capita are actually very bad (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-us-gun-violence-worl...) and worse in rural states, are you just going by feelings?

> Our gun crime rates per gun are flabbergastingly low

I think I'm going to start reporting our bug resolution counts by text editor.

It's like bug reports per user. Obviously if you have 4 users, you're going to have fewer bug reports.