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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are 745 million people in Europe. Classic American exceptionalism.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that’s actually a better argument for me ironically.

    Europe is more densely populated, among a smaller landmass (if we explicitly refer to western europe) making it MORE likely that any mass violence events hurt more random people.

    Where as the US has LESS people, across MORE space, making it even more unlikely for you to be involved in these attacks, because people are simply less likely to be in those places, at the time of the attack.

    Of course the US has disproportionately more acts of violence against other people, than somewhere like europe, but there are a variety of reasons this could be the case, but it’s questionable whether this makes you “significantly” more likely to experience an attack, considering you also spend “considerably less” time around other people in general.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You need to look at how they classify “mass shooting,” because a massive number of these are gang violence, since “mass shooting” usually means at least 4 people involved. Those tend to happen in dense cities, like Chicago or LA, not in the middle of nowhere.

      So if you’re not in the bad part of a large city and aren’t involved with any gangs, your chance of being involved in a mass shooting is incredibly rare.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yeah im not even touching that, because honestly, i have no idea what the numbers look like, but i’d guess that’s the case for the majority of violence in most places (cities especially)

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s also the matter of guns not being tossed around like candy at a Willy Wonka publicity tour in most of Europe.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        that’s true, and theres probably some truth to it, but it’s not a direct 1:1 comparison, so it’s not just fair to say it’s only gun control laws, when there are about 10 reasons it could be actually influencing it, though realistically a few of those are probably gun control related.

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