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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn't have guns to defend themselves.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And if those guns didn't have guns of their own.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Louisianians be like "Chicago tho amirite"

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's some bad boujee downindatbayou.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

That'd be the French influence

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (7 children)

What's the deal with Louisiana?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism

And that's just scratching the surface

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[–] RamblingPanda 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What's up with Liechtenstein? That's five people and a fortune, how are they competing with the US?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure the amount they're listed as having on the graph is equivalent to one single homicide, due to their low population.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (14 children)

What's the reason for excluding so many european countries in this graphic?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Switzerland is included though. I'm thinking it's just data availability.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

seems to be some non-eu countries...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (13 children)

so many

Two countries are being left out. Is two a high number to you?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Missouri is actually #1 if you count all the copicides.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why do these European charts omit the UK?

We left the EU, not the bloody continent.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The data is provided by Eurostat. An EU organisation, they are not going to fund numbers for a country not in the EU anymore (some other countries might still join for various reasons.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

If they hold that stance, the graph should not use 'Europe' when they essentially mean 'EU member nations', especially if they omit the UK for the reasons you state as the UK is a part of Europe.

Edit: not sure how difficult this is to understand. Europe is a continent, which includes the UK. The chart says Europe, not EU, whilst omitting a country within Europe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

In this case it is the graph makers laziness to not find extra stats on the UK. On the other part I believe the UK has the choice to join again, especially on side project as Eurostat. If a European country doesn't want to join on European initiatives then I'm bit sure if we should treat them specially. The choice is theirs and it was clearly made.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

We are on there but we had no killings. Just tragic accidents for the greater good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (8 children)

What’s up with New Hampshire that it’s on par with the EU countries?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The leading cause of homicide in the Baltic countries is alcohol. What is interesting is that the victims are usually family members and friends, because you drink at the same table and when you argue, you get angry and it ends badly. It is rare that a person is killed without a connection to the killer, and if it does happen, it makes the national headlines.

During the multiple occupations of the Baltic countries, alcohol was used to control the population. The tsar used it, Stalin used it and now Putin uses it. Alcohol helps to escape from reality and provides comfort. It will take time to overcome the alcoholic generations, measures are being taken to help solve the problem, but you can't change a country where for more than a hundred years alcoholism was the norm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I'd just like to interject and say we cause our own alcoholism, thank you very much. No help from our "friend" in the east needed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really? wildly waves hands at history

You gotta be extremely ignorant of even basic history to not see why.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Maybe you're right. I know very little about the history of the baltics, it never came up even once at school. Also news coverage about it is lackluster at best.

Do you have any specific events/timeperiods I should look into?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Alabama: "We aren't Mississippi!"

Guess they can include a few others too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Latvia is the Louisiana of Europe

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Surely not!” And then with a heavy sigh, I remembered Baltimore.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hmm Mord means murder though, not homicide, that would be Totschlag. Also there is a note in the sidebox that the graphs include attempted murders.

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