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by lazide 27 days ago
There isn’t an epidemic of any other gun crime, by the numbers.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683...

> The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 4.31 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021. That was more than seven times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.57 deaths per 100,000 people — and about 340 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.013 deaths per 100,000.

https://everytownresearch.org/graph/the-u-s-gun-homicide-rat...

> The US gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high-income countries.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26551975/

> US homicide rates were 7.0 times higher than in other high-income countries, driven by a gun homicide rate that was 25.2 times higher. For 15- to 24-year-olds, the gun homicide rate in the United States was 49.0 times higher. Firearm-related suicide rates were 8.0 times higher in the United States, but the overall suicide rates were average. Unintentional firearm deaths were 6.2 times higher in the United States. The overall firearm death rate in the United States from all causes was 10.0 times higher. Ninety percent of women, 91% of children aged 0 to 14 years, 92% of youth aged 15 to 24 years, and 82% of all people killed by firearms were from the United States.

We have more firearm homicides per capita than other prosperous countries have total homicides via all methods.

We were talking specific models, yes?
You said "any other gun crime", so no?

How much do you think of this disparity is due to Gatling guns?

In reference to the ‘no epidemic of Gatling gun crime’ comment, yes.

What other epidemic of a specific type of gun crime is there, exactly? (And no, entire categories like ‘hand gun’ don’t count)

> entire categories like ‘hand gun’ don’t count

How convenient for your argument!

Why not? You aren't concerned that our murder rate is seven times that of other OECD nations, and 25x when limited to firearms?

Because words have meaning, and ‘handgun’ can mean anything from a muzzle loading musket to a literal MAC-10 that can fire 1800 rounds per minute.

And if you can’t understand or articulate what is going on, then good luck doing anything about it?

I provided a concise term that actually has a concrete meaning. That is the thread we are in.

Care to join? Or do you want to scream incoherently into the void more?