• iii@mander.xyz
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    What’s the reason for excluding so many european countries in this graphic?

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      The UK not being included makes me think that these are only EU member countries? I don’t know for sure though.

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          It literally says Eurostat in the bottom right

          Eurostat (European Statistical Office; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission (…). Eurostat’s main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries.

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      As with all EU policy, the purpose is to make the USA look bad. This is the only reason Russia is not even in the EFTA or the EU.

      I have insider information that powers are play are trying to engineer a way to kick out Latvia to make the statistics more embarrassing to you.

      PS: UK 1.48, Switserland Not a country, Russia 6.8, Belarus 2.32, Ukraine 3.84 pre-war, Moldavia 2.27 USA 6.38

      I don’t think adding Russia will make the difference you think it will, since it’s barely more violent than the US.

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          I used wikipedia’s data that is sourced from UNODC and is apparently for 2021. For states the size of the UK it doesn’t really matter, fluctuations are small. Any given year the US will have ~6 times the homicide rate of the UK.

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        UK, Switserland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia.

        Cyprus is included for some reason.

        Which two of the above were you referring to?

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              The US does look bad. There is no make involved. The US homocide / gun deaths numbers are en par to some failed states or those with civil or actual war.

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                Your argument would be illustrated if this post included europe, as the title claimed it would.

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                  Ok, so the US is only much worse than the majority of EU countries.

                  That better?

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      Whenever you see a map with data about most European countries but not the UK, it’s probably Eurostat. After Brexit they stopped sharing their data.