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by ExoticPearTree 917 days ago
On the fact that you're investigated because you hold certain beliefs or say something that the party currently holding power doesn't like.

I don't think it is a more violent society. Maybe in the discourse, but not in actual crime. And yes, people are more polarized, but I think it is tied more to the economic context than anything else.
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RandomLensman 917 days ago
Have you looked at homicide figures, for example? Europe around 3 per 100k (EU below 2), US above 6.

The party thing was in the Eastern bloc, not sure where that is now the case.

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ExoticPearTree 917 days ago
I would say having access to guns in the US makes killing someone much easier than in the EU where most countries banned guns, making murders much harder to commit with a knife or a blunt object.

But this aside, did the murder rates increase in the last 10-20 years, decreased or is it the same?

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RandomLensman 917 days ago
Switzerland has a lot of guns but a homicide rate below 1 per 100k, it is not necessarily the guns as such.

US rate is a little bit up from early 2010s, but a lot lower than in the 1980s, in the EU the rate was low in the early 2020s compared to the previous ten years.

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