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by y-curious 462 days ago
Why would a tourist be detained arbitrarily? Are you referring to that one girl from Berlin? It's ironic to see you talking about statistics of gun violence but suggesting that the statistics of being detained as a tourist are high m.
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thecleaner 462 days ago
One from Berlin, one from the UK, one from Canada. Not sure how many more.
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y-curious 462 days ago
Let's say it's 1,000x more than your 3.

3,000 out of 66,500,000 visitors per year means you have a 0.004% chance of having this happen to you. You have significantly more chances of dying on your way to work in whatever country you are at.

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thecleaner 460 days ago
Math is off. Total number of people detained in 2023 was 270k out of 66million annual visitors. 0.4% chance. Chances of dying in a plane crash are roughly 1 in million (Google tells me so, not sure of the source). The ones I listed are the publicized ones but the story is the same.
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