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We're all just in Stockholm Syndrome to whatever culture we were born into. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 11 months ago by scarabic to c/showerthoughts
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Please read your own statistics. The first graph you showed forgot to add gun suicides to the gun violence number. And removing ~2% of deaths just by changing some simple laws is huge. It would be better than completely curing AIDS.

Regarding your second screenshot: The guy before was talking about how the USA is the most dangerous western country. So you post a screenshot which puts the USA behind some non-western country.

If you look at the fitting article on Wikipedia

You see that the USA is currently on place 9, behind only South/Middle American and Carribian countries.

The next kinda western country is Serbia on place 22.